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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Future of online fora
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:22:13 +0700
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:22:13 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On 4/8/2025 10:05 AM, John B. wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 08:59:52 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4/8/2025 8:21 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:54:43 -0400, zen cycle
>>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/8/2025 5:48 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:19:27 -0400, zen cycle
>>>>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/7/2025 8:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/7/2025 5:52 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> People who don't like 'things as they are' include communist
>>>>>>>>>> idealists, Libertarians and jihadis.  Over to you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But where are the people who are happy with "convention?"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I looked up how they rated "happiness"and it seems to be based on, GDP
>>>>>> per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom,
>>>>>> generosity, and corruption.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From, reading their site
>>>>>> https://worldhappiness.report/faq/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it seems to be more of a level of satisfaction of citizens who have
>>>>>> never lived in foreign countries and thus are not capable of comparing
>>>>>> life here wit life over there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know where you got that, I don't see any reference to 'people
>>>>> who have never lived in other countries'. If it's there and I missed it,
>>>>> please post the reference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Be that as it may, it isn't really relevant. If you're happy, your
>>>>> happy. whether you've lived somewhere else really doesn't factor into it.
>>>>
>>>> Poor wording.
>>>> Second try: the level of satisfaction of citizens who have no other
>>>> experiences which they can use to evaluate their present life.
>>>
>>>
>>> And where did you get the information that they had no other life
>>> experiences?>
>> 
>> It's pretty obvious. Just look at the average U.S, tourist. They
>> arrive knowing nothing about the country and leave knowing no  more
>> then when they arrived.
>
>Not obvious at all.

Not obvious? Even a simple thing like not wearing your shoes in a
Temple is beyond them. My wife and I visited the Wat Pho temple and
there must have been 50 pairs of shoes at the entrance and an American
girl was asking her mother, "Do I have to take my shoes off?" 

Now I do understand that taking ones shoes off to enter a religious
place is perhaps unique to some places in Asia but the 50 pairs of
shoes at the entrance might have been a clue that something is
different here. Or not?
-- 
Cheers,

John B.