delmontebanana Posted July 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Thanks for all the insightful replies everyone I think I might need a Scottish-Londoner dictionary though when i do come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 peeriesooky wrote So yes, there are genuine cases of people being nasty to tourists but sometimes that is just what the tourists deserve. no sure if dis counts but last week me n a work colleague were stopped by a u.s citizen and asked of our red overalls "WHAT DOES THE RED SIGNIFY"? (yes, he spoke yun loud). i proceeded to inform him of our allegiance to an unpronouncable norse god and our war of generations with those wearing blue overalls. i half expected it but yes, he believed me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeriebryan Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 My Midder works in a shop on the street, and recently one of her workmates was told by a senior US citizen that her english was very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turrifield Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 It's the people that make a place what it is to live in, so of coure different people will have different views depending on who they know. It is impossable to make generalisations about any population.Shetland is a small place so in Sakchai's case he was lucky because the right people made alot of noise and attracted attention to his plight which would have been harder in a big city for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tito_Ortiz Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 A friend of mine used to do bus tours for American tourists and was once doing a trip to Jarlshof when he was asked in all seriousness by an American lady "Why did the vikings build Jarlshof so close to the airport?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 I used to tell the folk at UNI you could see icebergs and polar bears from Unst, the fools actually belived me. I also used to get irked when they would ask if I was getting the train home at the holidays! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evian2 Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 quick point: shetland is not a warm and nice place all the time, it can be a lonely and cold place where one can feel very islolated. So peerieoosky shouldnt be hounded for the points made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. I forget who actually stated this, but it leads on, I believe, to R. Mertons paper "The self-fulfilling prophecy" in 1948. Where he went with this was to go as far as to say that false beliefs lead to their own fulfillment! He proposed self-fulfilling prophecies have the potential to produce "profound social problems, unfair labour practices, discriminatory policies", along with other factors etc. etc. The majority of research, inlcuding follow up analysis done by Rosenthal et al through various papers at varying times bearing on Merton's prior investigations clearly supports the existence of self-fulfilling prophecies! J. Copeland followed this in a 1994 paper that subtle interpersonal process have the potential for shaping social reality. All of their research demonstrates that the prior beliefs and expectations we hold about a person and or people / situations can lead us to influence people / situations, such that they behave / situations conform in ways that confirm our initial expectations about them. To cut it short ... people can create the stereotypical environment they believe they exist in purely through their own actions and belief of a stereotyped environment - transjecting that onto the very people who they believe are stereotypical who will conform back unto them their expected stereotypes - ad nauseum ... .... and it goes round and round ... You reap what you sow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evian2 Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 I agree with your points trout, but I think the point to be made is that shetland probably, isnt a fluffy place all of the time, apart from the sheep that make it fluffy, wasnt really expecting your reply - good as it is. Shetlland is a place is the same as anywhere, much like the people, most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evian2 Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Anyway, Shetland has better beaches than most of Scotland, so thats enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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