Rob, I get the feeling that you need for everyone you talk to here, to agree with you. It's just never going to happen. We've all had so many varied experiences, it would be fairly impossible to get everyone to agree.

Jane........here's some more of my "oft-stated" stuff. (It has always seemed to bother you the most around here). I think one problem we're all having here is that all of us have, like I just said to Rob, such a variety of different experiences. Some of live in the middle of all sorts of cultures and people who get along. Some of us have had mostly bad experiences with certain types/cultures of people. Of course not everyone in different groups is going to be the same. I think it's pretty natural, if a person sees a certain type of behavior in a certain group of people over and over......there are going to be some generalizations made.
We should all strive for and hope for a peaceful co-existence with everyone. But sometimes people live around a skewed representation of certain types, and it would be naive to not acknowledge that.
I'm happy for you that you live in a place where everyone is happy and reasonable. But not everyone lives in a place like that. And it sounds like you're talking about, and interacting with very bright people from different cultures. That is quite different from the people I'm referring to in some of what I've said. Plus........as I said, I was trying to understand why some things might lead to some problems in cultures.