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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1115941" data-attributes="member: 6533">eh...As a general rule, there's not much about the Bible Belt that should worry you from a general outsider looking in perspective. True, we are generally as ignorant as most other Americans when it comes to foriegn policy, but that's not likely to change anywhere or under any circumstances and that ignorance is certainly less than total.  Mind you, in each section of America that ignorance covers different areas and aspects of the total equation.Bible Belters are generally courteous.  For every nasty one there is another willing to pick you up from where you landed and treat you with the utmost dignity.It's a corallary to the 'Japanese culture is conformist' maxim and interpretation, which is only true if you deliberately ignore all the radically non-conformist elements which make the culture as a whole one of the most personally, as opposed to ethnically or religiously, diverse anywhere.    Our politics are nasty and very very passionate, but we rarely block traffic.  And that's a discussion for another board.To illustrate the corollary, my brother and I were taught about DnD by our sister's babysitter, who was a family friend.  The babysitter's parents found out about this and came over to brief our parents about how DnD would be the best thing to happen to us.  We would develop lifelong wonderful friends out of it, have people over all the time, and be generally more pleasant as a result.This in a city where every block has a church or church related society or two or three.  So many churches, that when I visited New York state I became radically disoriented by the lack of them.  For me a block is a church, unless its on campus, then a block is a street preacher or flyer promoter.Which isn't to say that you shouldn't be happy to live in England, most places have their own special joys and attractions.</blockquote>

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