RE: typically new york?...XENOPHOBIA RUN RAMPANT

[Steve Levin <steve...>]

This is my first day on this list and this was the last topic of
conversation I thought I?d find. I lived in NY for 6 years (City and Bklyn)
and I can tell you that NY can be a tough place to live and requires a thick
skin.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Trudi Goodman
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:54 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: typically new york?...XENOPHOBIA RUN RAMPANT

 Being from Boston, I object to the stereotype that we are all a cold bunch
of anal buttheads. The truth of the matter is that there are rude people and
nice people everywhere. And though I enjoyed the photo I gotta say that if
anyone wanted to say that ALL ISRAELIS are like that I'd object too. I don't
know what Robert's experiences  were in Boston...but I've been treated
astoundingly rudely in Manhatten and wonderfully helpfully in Brooklyn...I
LOVE BROOOKLYN.   It just depends where you are and what your own mood might
be. My vote for some of the rudest people that I've ever met...Midwest(Iowa)
to be exact, but that's just the ones I met. And hey...I hear they got yidn
there, too!!!
    Trudi the G
>From: "Robert Cohen"
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: Re: typically new york?
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:55:30
>
>I object--vociferously!! New Yorkers have an almost totally
>undeserved
>reputation for rudeness; there's often or usually a certain
>arrogance, but
>it's combined with an invariable helpfulness, e.g., toward
>strangers.
>Boston, otoh, is not only intolerably cold climatically but must be
>the
>rudest place on earth; *all* of my top-ten rudest encounters ever
>with
>people have occurred here.
>
>--Robert Cohen
>
>
>
>>Khaverim --
>>
>>I have to say that while this photo, which I thoroughly enjoyed, is
>>undoubtedly typically Israeli, the rudeness implied (he's got God
>>on
>>hold while he talks to his broker, nu?) is also typically New York.
>
>
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