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WCDT 6-10 June 2011 (1941-1945) [World War II Edition]
Method of Madness:
I'm actually not sure if Padma is including herself when she defines townie.
O8h7w:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 07 Jun 2011, 14:25 ---Well, yeah. Padma says things that are rude and hurtful because she's too 'differently clued' to realize that that might not be the best way of saying it. I suffer from a similar problem.
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--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 07 Jun 2011, 14:52 ---As for Padma being "clued differently", some people speak their mind and are simply blunt about matters, simple as that. Some people are also missing that mental filter that makes them think "maybe I shouldn't say that..."
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And some of us doesn't even get what that filter is, we take words for truth and we speak just as simple as that. Only when we see the faces of those who heard the faux pas we realize there was some damned innuendo or whatever in what we just said...
:psyduck:
(for those who wonder, yes I have Aspergers syndrome)
Tova:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 07 Jun 2011, 14:37 ---Renee's logic is shit. If Marten was a student and his ex worked at/frequented a particular coffeeshop, wouldn't he still avoid it after a breakup?
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I agree that what Renee said is nonsense, but I think that Platypodes has successfully read her mind. I think I've finally got it. >.>
--- Quote from: Platypodes on 07 Jun 2011, 02:31 ---Using this stereotype, the the phrase "townie drama" does fit a guy hanging around in a coffee shop being angsty about how his romantic woes are keeping him away from the other coffee shop where he used to spend copious amounts of time hanging around.
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Akima:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 07 Jun 2011, 10:21 ---I suspect Carl-E extrapolated from personal experience that Padma's parents were professors, mostly for the obvious reason: her name indicates she's not exactly native to the area. One characteristic of many small colleges is that they hire people from outside the immediate area (and, possibly in Padma's parents' case, outside of the country) as professors at their school.
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I haven't visited Massachusetts, much less Northampton, so I don't know how multi-ethnic the town might be, but Carl-E's hypothesis sounds plausible. Padma's "differently clued" style might also give a hint of growing up in another culture. I know from personal experience that ideas about what is polite, how one should talk (especially in an different language), physical and mental privacy, and many other things, vary a great deal between different cultures, and I have suffered enough from the "the Chinese are so rude" stereotype to know how this can strike other people. Anyone who thinks politeness is the same everywhere else has presumably never been anywhere else.
I have heard of the "town vs. gown" thing, but having gone to uni in the largest city in Australia* (Sydney has about 4.5 million people), I've never really encountered it. I think Carl-E is correct that it arises where the population of students is large in relation to the total urban population. According to Wikipedia, Northampton has a population of less than 30,000 (but calls itself a city :laugh:), so I can imagine that students from Smith and maybe the other Five Colleges do make an impression.
*My home town has a population of over 23 million. Sydney is just a suburb... :-D
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 07 Jun 2011, 15:03 ---I'm actually not sure if Padma is including herself when she defines townie.
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This is another reason I supposed that she may be in an "in-between" social circle (i.e. faculty brat). That, and her extraordinarily diferent way of speaking her mind.
I'd venture to say that she may well have been home schooled, too... but that's a reach. :wink:
Edit: Akima! I've been ninja'd by the best!
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