Your Comments Are So Insightful
by: Bobby Craig*
I can't believe how insightful you are. You know, now that you mention it, I think I have noticed a few differences in the way that people from the North and the South talk.
In fact, the more that I ponder this situation, the more that I realize it's almost like we're speaking two different languages: You with your "y'alls," and me with my . . . my referring to groups of people with contractions other than "y'all."
One of the most beautiful aspects of American higher education is the way students from all different cultural backgrounds are brought together to learn. Diversity can mean the difference between learning out of a text book and learning from other people. . . . Our conversations with our peers are our seminars; our own dining halls are our classrooms.
Before coming to college, I never would have dreamed of actually talking to a person from Hawaii, a magical dreamland where . . .
What about the people who don't speak English? Did it ever enter your mind that while we laugh about the correct way to pronounce "water," there are people with whom we would be totally unable to communicate with. Some speak Spanish, German, French, Chinese . . .
There are people who could not conceive of a separation of Church and state.
There are people who would never dream of actually having clean drinking water, nourishing food, and decent shelter.
Some people cannot speak their minds because, for them, freedom of speech does not exist.
Not only do people live lives devoid of basic human rights, they live them without telephones, televisions, cars, computers . . .
Slavery. Can you even imagine a lifestyle more foreign to an American than that of a slave?
Your comments are so insightful.
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*And by Bobby Craig, we mean Daniel Riehs.
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