That struck me as odd. I don't know, but I can't see a culture where people crash into each other all the time, not with that force. It seemed like culture clash.
A parallel example:
The first time I took my wife to NYC (where I was raised), she got consistently run over by people on the street. I ended up having to literally tow her behind me as I led her down the sidewalk.
People on New York streets don't plow into each other normally, so I was curious. It turns out that the Boston paradigm (where she's from) is to give other walkers a wide berth, and generally yield to people on the wrong side of the sidewalk. (This parallels traffic.) There isn't room for this in New York, so the paradigm there is for each perosn to each adjust a half-person's width in the split second before impact. Lacking this training, she didn't adjust, and so kept colliding.
I have to wonder if Mr. Lewis encountered this sort of problem; failing to fit in with the flow, he decided that everyone was out to hit him, and upon testing his theory, it turned out they wouldn't shy away from doing so. This in turn made me worry about his conclusions in the rest of the article, if he couldn't be bothered to get to the bottom of this situation.
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Date: 2009-03-18 10:18 pm (UTC)A parallel example:
The first time I took my wife to NYC (where I was raised), she got consistently run over by people on the street. I ended up having to literally tow her behind me as I led her down the sidewalk.
People on New York streets don't plow into each other normally, so I was curious. It turns out that the Boston paradigm (where she's from) is to give other walkers a wide berth, and generally yield to people on the wrong side of the sidewalk. (This parallels traffic.) There isn't room for this in New York, so the paradigm there is for each perosn to each adjust a half-person's width in the split second before impact. Lacking this training, she didn't adjust, and so kept colliding.
I have to wonder if Mr. Lewis encountered this sort of problem; failing to fit in with the flow, he decided that everyone was out to hit him, and upon testing his theory, it turned out they wouldn't shy away from doing so. This in turn made me worry about his conclusions in the rest of the article, if he couldn't be bothered to get to the bottom of this situation.