[Coda]

Originally Posted by Edit from Tohopekaliga!

I split this off from the Dinner thread because, well, it's entirely unrelated after the first post here...Be excellent to one another. :)

Actually I was the guest at that time -- I had made breakfast while visiting her, and everyone else loved it, but she wouldn't even try it.

Salone, you're young enough to have escaped being raised that way. ml, it's not so much Americans in general as it is socially-conservative (independent of fiscal or political views) Americans over the age of 40 or so, with the specifics of the age range varying by region. (Alaska, for what it's worth, is actually a lot more like the south than people think; it attracts the same kind of people who would live on ten acres of land in an area loosely called a "city" than in an actual city.)

It's a culture of resistance to change. The way they know is the way things ought to be. If it's different from that, it's wrong.

Fortunately, social connectivity in the 80s and later has meant that my generation has started moving away from that legacy, and the generations after me moreso.