I get what this thread is saying but I don't like this kind of generalization In my experience, as someone who's lived all over the country, this stuff has a lot more to do with race/class/cultural background (yours and the person you're interacting with), regardless of regionhttps://twitter.com/jordonaut/status/1352363163686068226 …
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I mean yes I found hanging out with "policy wonks" with their credentials on their lanyards kind of weird when I lived in DC Just like it was extremely surreal trying to do the actor thing in LA where every single person you talk to has a stack of headshots in their apartment
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But not wanting to be a politician or a staffer, or not wanting to be an actor or a celebrity, isn't some magic formula to make you "genuine" Fakeness comes in a myriad of forms and proliferates at every level of the economy
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I mean we've been over this, right, like "Minnesota nice" isn't actually nice, it's just passive-aggressiveness born of living in a small town where you couldn't avoid anyone for any real length of time due to the harsh winters so you had to pretend
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So much of that is a question of reading different regions' cultural cues. I've noticed that an awful lot of Americans don't seem to realize just how different cultural cues are in different parts of the country.
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