It's the social pressures on non-Xtians some of you seem to be in denial about here, and your absolute pig headedness about refusing to accept how strong are the pressures to force assimilation upon all other cultures to conform to the dominant Anglo Xtian culture in the US especially.

We are very close, in terms of population numbers in the US, to the nation no longer being a majority of English speakers. Now, I'm sure those of you in Britain can't really get your heads around that. There are many parts of the US, especially in urban areas and certain rural ones, where you rarely hear English spoken, depending on what neighborhood you are in. Now, I know most Mudcatters live in exclusively white Xtian or white Jewish areas, and get precious little exposure to minorities. Threads like this make that blatantly obvious, despite everyone's protestations that they have "minorities" among family and friends. Having a few minority family members or friends isn't the equivalent of getting everyday, constant exposure to non-dominant minority cultures.

That is what makes this place so conservative. The people who post here are pretty much all the same. Very little cultural diversity is seen here. This is the only place in my reality, 3D or online, where I encounter this kind of bizarre behavior anymore.