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| Dec 01, 2005 6:46 am |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Why Do Men Lie to Women? |
Denise Michaels
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Susan Perkins wrote:
"The "culture" in the U.S. is lacking - and it is a catch 22 situation..."
DMM: Culture is where you find it. You will not find European culture here in much of the US because you're not in Europe. So I think it's very smart that you've made a promise to yourself to look into living in one of those countries. You're defining culture in a very narrow way. As European. And yet there are cultural influences in this country from all over the world.
In the US culture is about hamburgers, french fries, apple pie, fried chicken and biscuits. It's not about Cabernet Sauvignon, pate and baguettes - lovely as those things are (my ancestry is French). It's about jazz music in the French Quarter, People magazine, the Rolling Stones, Thanksgiving turkey, shopping on Black Friday, the ball dropping in Times Square at the New Year and the Super Bowl and eating chocolate on Valentine's Day with the one you love. It's about wearing red, white and blue on the Fourth of July and watching fireworks with your neighbors sitting on a blanket under a star-filled sky. Culture in America is about carving pumpkins for Halloween and taking your kids trick-or-treating. Culture in America is about Chinatown in New York and San Francisco, the Inuit (eskimo) in the Pacific Northwest, Greektown in Detroit, shrimping in the low country of the Carolinas, and Middle Eastern culture in Dearborn.
I lived in San Diego for about ten years and their "culture" was very closely aligned to the border they shared with Mexico, the mariachi music, tortillas and salsa with eggs rather than toast and jam and ballet Folklorico - not some European country 5,000 miles and eight time zones away.
Back to Sandra's original question: Why do men lie? Because for many men relationships are not that intrinsically important to them. Facing the music doesn't sound like much fun so it's a lot easier to just skip out.
All the best,
Denise Michaels
Author, "Testosterone-Free Marketing"
Visit: http://www.GreatIdeasforWomenOver40.com
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