Coloradans hates Texans?????
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 25-07-2012
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I hear that Coloradans hate Texans, not all but a lot, and unfortunately I think the report is true. I worked for a Dallas based company for many years and for a time covered the beautiful states of Colorado and Wyoming, along with parts of West Texas and New Mexico. None of the customers I called on were ever rude to me nor did they seem to dislike me. However, one lady that I called on remarked to one of my Colorado based co-workers that if she heard “Yes Mam” from me one more time she was going to scream. My co=worker reported that to my superiors and later I was removed from the Colorado, Wyoming territory. Maybe not for that reason, but I never really connected with those customers like I did my West Texas and New Mexico customers who were really more like buddies. Of course, I called on them for years and really enjoyed the work. Well, so it goes, but for me I have to say “Yes Mam and Yes Sir” as that was the way I was brought up and it was automatic. Sorry….Seems strange to apologize for saying Mam, huh?… Hate may be to strong a term, so lets change the hate to dislike….Maybe we use the term different? Excuse me a second….”Lord, please bless all the salesman and others on the road today, trying to make a living traveling all over the country, spending the nights alone in motels and hotels. Help them to stay focused on the reason they are there and keep them away from the demon alcohol. And if a Texan is working in Colorado, help him and his customers to become fast and long time friends. In your name I pray, Amen”…..Well, let me know…Pete
The problem sounds like a cultural one to me. The United States is a land of many cultures, traditions, and religions, and it is becoming more so by the day. When I go to different parts of the country where the people are different, I quickly learned to keep my mouth shut and no body knows the difference; or else, they just view me as just another transplanted James Holmes but without a gun and harmless. Of course, I can see where that strategy would present a problem for a traveling salesmen.
I firmly believe that these cultural differences in the USA are the reason so many Americans have become disenchanted with the national visual Media (including Hollywood). Most people prefer to be themselves, to be the way they were raised, and to talk like their earliest acquaintances, peers, and family members talked. They prefer to use the “n” word, the “f’ word, and all those other words that have always been in their vocabulary as valuable words of the English language, which have become a part of them, but which the national Media seems determined to banish. This is only human nature; and, if our republic is to endure, human nature must take precedence.
In my Mother’s final years, she hated just about everything that could be viewed on television and most of what was coming out of Hollywood because so much of it contradicted everything that she had been taught for a lifetime to expect from the national Media. To her, the Media content appeared un-Christian, immoral, and sometimes even downright dirty. It just wasn’t something that good Christian people should expect over the public airwaves. Yes! We have a cultural problem in this country. We always have had because this country has always been a “melting pot” of many, many cultures. It is not so much that our separate cultures don’t love and try to understand the culture of their neighbors (My Mother loved everyone worldwide regardless of the color of their skin and the sound of their voice.); but that our national Media outlets, with Hollywood as one of those outlets, is trying to play god and mold all cultures into one in accordance with their preconceived definition..
I do not use the n word and I seldom use the f word. I trained myself not to cuss for years. Sometimes I slip, but I do try to control my tongue. So those two items do not apply, however, I think I know what you are saying. It has a lot to do with attitudes, I think.
Let’s be clear here! The “n” word and the “f” words are not proper for use in formal conversation, and they certainly are not proper for use in the Media, but they were mentioned only as examples of all those other words that the Media is trying to ban in the interest of mind control, culture development, and the molding of a particular people in a preconceived way. The Media has become less and less an agent of news delivery and more and more an agent of culture development and control.
These words were certainly proper in earlier periods for use in informal conversation in the privacy of friends, and they still are especially among those people who haven’t the vocabulary to express themselves with any other “dictionary” words which many would not even understand. The banishment of these words is a serious violation of the First Amendment of which the Media is often in serious violation. There is a difference between private speech and public speech. The banishment of any words is a serious violation of the First Amendment as well as a serious attack on personal liberty and freedom.
If I wish to go out into the forest and curse a tree, then that is ONLY the business of myself and my Lord. It is the business of the Media to stay out of it. If I wish to take the “n” word and apply its main meaning, that is as a description of a ne’er-do-well” and sorry individual, as the word has absolutely nothing to do with race, then it is only my business, and it is not the business of the news Media. It is a colloquial expression, and colloquial expressions and words are okay for use in private speech. If one goes into the black community, one will hear many, many colloquial expressions because that is all that many of them know for the purpose of communication. It is the same in the Hispanic and white communities. Education alone cannot educate people out of this reality. It has tried, and it has failed to the detriment of the entire educational system. It is time to stop getting “shuck up” over the use of these words and start treating each other with love and respect in accordance with the teachings of Jesus, who made abundant use of the coloquialisms of His day, but he always used them in a positive/teaching way. He had to use the coloquial expressons because those are the expressions that He had to use in order to communicate with the people of His day. Most of the people had little formal education, and most knew no other.