Response to emotionally-charged post

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), May 23, 2010 at 22:40

Did I say I was looking up cultures on-line? No!!

Yet you are still here. Why?

There are over 105,000 comments on this article. Type in ONE single word that correlates to any of the words listed here on DP postings and bam, you get this juicy website. Why would people not be interested to stop and see what it is all about, especially if it talks about something you are familiar with. Why are you so defensive? ..

If you can't control what you write, your posts WILL get edited.

Also, there are under 10,000 comments on this article, not 105000.

You're the one who is being defensive. Something wrong with your marriage? .

Have you actually been to Morocco? ..........Do you have family and relatives there?......Your knowledge is based on what you read or friends. I have experienced the life and have loved ones who live here. I travel once a year with my husband to Morocco.

So what? You think that traveling to isolated, developed areas of Morocco or relaxing at a resort gives you a view and understanding of the culture?

I've traveled enough---and worked in the travel industry long enough---to know that hot spots and resorts where all the rich people go in the Third World often have to pay their employees extra to be nice to the tourists, which they see as snobbish. I can personally attest to that because I've worked for resorts before.

Man, I wish I had an euro every time I heard that from a liberal or cultural sympathizer.

Actually, with credible information from the internet, few though the bytes are, a person can learn more about a culture than someone who goes there to find a husband, get laid or sit on the beach starting the sea all day.

Traveling means NOTHING as far as relationship knowledge goes, and my advice to anyone reading this is to listen to people with actual relationship experience as opposed to those who have traveled everywhere.

FYI--I used to live with an Egyptian man and an Iraqi man.

Therefore, DO NOT say my answers are not correct! You need to be better informed STL.

Your answers are not very good. Given the nature of this response, I would even say self-centered. I've dealt with that on here before, though.

Besides, if your husband is so great, why are you looking this information up on-line and why are you spending time talking to me? Are my posts more entertaining than he is?

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