I am sad to say that even in my 21 years of life, I have come into contact with those same types of people you mentioned being similar to Janele.
Apologies, but I'm going to have to have to verbally expound on my personal life a little to explain certain points. I was actually born and raised in Dublin City (Republic of Ireland) you see, but my family moved to Belfast (Northern Ireland and part of the UK) when I was 12. I'm not sure how much you've heard of it in the US(?), but I have a friend in Canada whom I met a couple of years back who assured me that the whole unrest thing in Belfast was well known my those in Canada and presumably the States ("The States. :D The States, the States, the States. :D :D :D Oh~ America. Americaa~ha~~" XDDDD Name that tune).
Let's just say, when I moved up there things had calmed down a lot ("ceasefire" and all), but that due to some people like Janele, no one ever says/said particularly "sensitive" things. They still don't as a matter of fact - no-one wants to get their windows bricked. Self-censoring is still about, just encase you start rambling and complaining to the wrong person. I did have an easier time of it though, because I don't have an Irish accent. My ethinicity is mainly Chinese with some Russian on my father's side, so because neither of my parents were particularly brilliant at English, my mother used to tape Sesame Street for me as a toddler, which I would watch over and over. As a result, my accent has been termed American, Canadian, Mid-Atlanic, and "American with surprise-English/Irish" (the last one was due to an American friend who thought I was American until we had a huge "What?(o__O)"-"What?(O__o)" over the terms "rubbish bin" and "trash can" :P).
As for that HIV+ man, we had one over here too (in England I think) except as opposed to dozens of women, he deliberately seduced and slept with 3 married women whom already had kids and family. D: They caught him here too.
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Re: Posted this at LJ - but then deleted it. Thought it'd be better sending it privately.
Date: 2009-09-01 07:57 am (UTC)Apologies, but I'm going to have to have to verbally expound on my personal life a little to explain certain points. I was actually born and raised in Dublin City (Republic of Ireland) you see, but my family moved to Belfast (Northern Ireland and part of the UK) when I was 12. I'm not sure how much you've heard of it in the US(?), but I have a friend in Canada whom I met a couple of years back who assured me that the whole unrest thing in Belfast was well known my those in Canada and presumably the States ("The States. :D The States, the States, the States. :D :D :D Oh~ America. Americaa~ha~~" XDDDD Name that tune).
Let's just say, when I moved up there things had calmed down a lot ("ceasefire" and all), but that due to some people like Janele, no one ever says/said particularly "sensitive" things. They still don't as a matter of fact - no-one wants to get their windows bricked. Self-censoring is still about, just encase you start rambling and complaining to the wrong person. I did have an easier time of it though, because I don't have an Irish accent. My ethinicity is mainly Chinese with some Russian on my father's side, so because neither of my parents were particularly brilliant at English, my mother used to tape Sesame Street for me as a toddler, which I would watch over and over. As a result, my accent has been termed American, Canadian, Mid-Atlanic, and "American with surprise-English/Irish" (the last one was due to an American friend who thought I was American until we had a huge "What?(o__O)"-"What?(O__o)" over the terms "rubbish bin" and "trash can" :P).
As for that HIV+ man, we had one over here too (in England I think) except as opposed to dozens of women, he deliberately seduced and slept with 3 married women whom already had kids and family. D: They caught him here too.