Indeed, it's what people tend to do. Generalizing things make the world a less complex and easier to understand place. We all do it to some extend as adults - and learn to see nuances depending on our education and life-experiences. Small kids have this in extrema by seeing/dividing their entire world in two parts GOOD and BAD. Some adults still do - regardless of education or life experiences - like quite a few of the republicans in the US government?
As a Dutch person I encounter the 'Amsterdam-stereotype' very often when I go abroad. Somehow they always think you have some tabs on a good place to get weed or hash/dope. The truth is that only a small minority of people use that stuff and in Amsterdam it's the often tourists that are high. To nuance things a bit - it's often pop-stars, teenagers, twenty-something tourists that want to use drugs in Amsterdam. A large part of it's population will simply not.
Shrilanka has a beautiful countryside, very hospitable people and great food (I got that from CNN and from National Geopgraphic so not personal experience) and I bet that is what Clarke and Peddle would say - but we don't know unless we ask them. Say Matt, you've been doing all these great interviews - perhaps you could actually ask them?
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Mark Vergeer - Editor / Pixelator
Armchair Arcade, Inc. Gamertag
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Indeed, it's what people tend to do. Generalizing things make the world a less complex and easier to understand place. We all do it to some extend as adults - and learn to see nuances depending on our education and life-experiences. Small kids have this in extrema by seeing/dividing their entire world in two parts GOOD and BAD. Some adults still do - regardless of education or life experiences - like quite a few of the republicans in the US government?
As a Dutch person I encounter the 'Amsterdam-stereotype' very often when I go abroad. Somehow they always think you have some tabs on a good place to get weed or hash/dope. The truth is that only a small minority of people use that stuff and in Amsterdam it's the often tourists that are high. To nuance things a bit - it's often pop-stars, teenagers, twenty-something tourists that want to use drugs in Amsterdam. A large part of it's population will simply not.
Shrilanka has a beautiful countryside, very hospitable people and great food (I got that from CNN and from National Geopgraphic so not personal experience) and I bet that is what Clarke and Peddle would say - but we don't know unless we ask them. Say Matt, you've been doing all these great interviews - perhaps you could actually ask them?
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Mark Vergeer - Editor / Pixelator
Armchair Arcade, Inc. Gamertag
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Armchair Arcade Editor