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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 12/22/2004 10:28 AM (GMT -6) |   | Hi, Tom.
Growing up in a Scandanavian ghetto, and then moving around the USA, a few things observed in Minnesota growing up came into focus. Its all about the Onion.
Some young persons coming to MPLS/STP for business would express how "cold" Minnesota felt -- compared to where they were from. This was in the summer. And they meant the people.
When I moved to where people spoke of "LUVAL" (KY) the shoe was on the other foot.
But we were all the same. Same onion design. but they were 'evens' and Minnesotans were 'odds.'
Scandanavians aren't 'cold.' They are reserved on the outside, where the southerners are 'warm.' But the Minnesotan will go way out of his way to help someone in need, far sooner than he would smile or express his inner emotion. "Yep!"
Southerners will sometime accidently discover that layer of warmth (layer-two, which is 'even') and both appreciate and misunderstand it.
For a southerner, gentility is a virtue. Friendliness is dispersed broadly, vastly, and with generousity. But 'whoa' to the German farmer from North Dakota who moves to South Carolina! That friendliness doesn't mean whaat that snow-lover thinks it has to mean. It's not attached to what he thinks it must be. Southerners hide their hearts, but not their friendliness. Nordic types hide their emotions, but will yeild their hearts and hopes to those they who have passed the test of trust. But the Nordic will only yeild as far as that layer goes. The deepest, most formative sectors of the heart will remain hidden.
The LUVAL-ite will smile freely, stoically hold his thoughts to himself, but invite you into the bossom of his family for dinner if you pass musster (at the same point the Nordic is sizing you up a second time -- to see whether you will permanently be family, and not just given a room and eats for a week.)
Evens and odds. Same onion, but layered differently.
North and sounth misunderstanding each other.
Its the cold weather that causes this.
But when it snows in Missouri or Kentucky, everything changes!
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