Water vs Dry Land

[August1991]

I tend to prefer people from (salt) water places: People who have contact with the outside world.

Dry land people (Riyadh people as opposed to people in Jeddah) have little contact with the outside world. Even in Japan and China, people near the sea (Tientsin, Yokohama) are different from people inland (Beijing and Tokyo). Albertans are more close-minded than Newfoundlanders and Vancouverites.

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Individuals tend to choose sides. In the future, I don't think that people will choose sides according to religion, superstition, nationalism, language. I think that we will choose sides according to how close we are to water.

Edited May 15, 2014 by August1991

[Bryan]

You come up with some of the craziest theories.

Albertans are more close-minded than Newfoundlanders and Vancouverites.

How does one go about quantifying that?

[Bob Macadoo]

You come up with some of the craziest theories.

How does one go about quantifying that?

I don't know about crazy......its an interesting social structure hypothesis.......what are the valuation parameters......what is the definition of open....what is the theory as to causality.......I'd like to hear more before I declare crazy.

[Michael Hardner]

The city-state is a more natural way for people to group, assuming there's a way to organize people.

All of these grouping patterns resulted from communication technology that allowed for the grouping to happen. As such, I don't know that nations will mean the same thing to people after the decline of centralized media, like television, where the messages tend to come from one part of the country.

[TimG]

Even in Japan and China, people near the sea (Tientsin, Yokohama) are different from people inland (Beijing and Tokyo).

You need to look at a map. Yokohama and Tokyo are two port cities on the same body of water (Tokyo Bay). Yokohama was simply designated as the only port where foreigners were allowed to go during the period where Japan was closed off. Edited May 15, 2014 by TimG

[Guest]

I lived in Yorkshire, then the Lower Mainland of BC, and now Alberta.

I could feel my mind opening and closing as I went.

[guyser]

I say: Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side

12:35 Am indeed.

Edited May 15, 2014 by Guyser2

[-TSS-]

The future wars will be about fresh water. You in Canada have a lot of that. Thankfully so does your giant neighbour, so they're unlikely to invade you under some flimsy excuse.

[Guest]

If it wasn't for golf courses and car washes we'd probably have enough to share.

[overthere]

I tend to prefer people from (salt) water places: People who have contact with the outside world.

Dry land people (Riyadh people as opposed to people in Jeddah) have little contact with the outside world. Even in Japan and China, people near the sea (Tientsin, Yokohama) are different from people inland (Beijing and Tokyo). Albertans are more close-minded than Newfoundlanders and Vancouverites.

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Individuals tend to choose sides. In the future, I don't think that people will choose sides according to religion, superstition, nationalism, language. I think that we will choose sides according to how close we are to water.

Yep, no rednecks in Chicoutimi or Trois Rivieres.

Albertas population has grown by about 60% in 20 years.

Did we get the adventurous, hardworking types from Montreal, Djibouti, Krakow and Algiers or did we get the waterhaters from Nebraska?

[-TSS-]

If it wasn't for golf courses and car washes we'd probably have enough to share.

Speaking of golf-courses I was surprised to learn that there are golf-courses in Singapore. Why was that such a surprise? Well, I thought that as they are crammed on a small piece of land and are at the mercy of Mlaysia they would really take advantage of every cubic inch of their own land instead of wasting good land on some stupid rubbish such as playfields for the rich.

[Guest]

I'm surprised too. I imagine land prices in Singapore would make a golf course very attractive to developers. Probably earn its owner a lot more than green fees.

Edited May 24, 2014 by bcsapper

[August1991]

Yep, no rednecks in Chicoutimi or Trois Rivieres.

Albertas population has grown by about 60% in 20 years.

Did we get the adventurous, hardworking types from Montreal, Djibouti, Krakow and Algiers or did we get the waterhaters from Nebraska?

Fair point.

Maybe the question is not proximity to water, but rather proximity to people from "Montreal, Djibouti, Krakow and Algiers" - as you put it.

(BTW, Krakow is not on an ocean, and the water near Montreal does not have salt.)

Edited May 24, 2014 by August1991