Azizi, welcome back from another relative newcomer.

The responses to you show how Mudcat can function like a support group. That's surely to be treasured.

It's a pleasure (for me) to find such a funny, interesting, argumentative, friendly, helpful, knowledgable and tolerant bunch as I've stumbled across here.



Obnoxious racists seem to disappear if

a)there is zilch respose

b)you ask the kind of questions or make the cool factual statements they can't answer.

My taste is for the latter e.g.re the U.K."Unless you're a Pict, you're a descendant of immigrants";re anywhere, people from our beginnings and for many millenia, wandered the planet, so we're all a mixture; or, geneticists say we are all related by not more distant the about sixth cousin.

What's probably counter-productive is arguing or attacking/defending.

"The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool."(William McFee,novelist)


I suppose we may each come and go as we please, as long as we realise that there will be consequences either way.

Auto/Ivor