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By kilax, May 15, 2008 5:52 am

Do you think you can tell where a person is from after meeting them? I am not talking about using clues like the way they talk, or they way they dress, but just based on their personality. (See how Today’s Idiom inspired this post)

I don’t think I can tell where people are from, but I know some people firmly believe they can judge which state, and sometimes which city you are from, based on the way you act.

A few years ago, I took a summer sociology night class. For one class, the professor invited us to bring a guest so we could play a game.

So I brought Steven with me. The purpose of the game was to illustrate how money is distributed in society – the large difference between the wealth of the rich, and the destitution of the poor. Everyone started out the game with the same amount of “money” (I think we used poker chips or something), then by luck, you ended up in one of three groups – lower class, middle class, and upper class.

The twist to the game was that every class got to vote on how the money was distributed – but the upper class had the most say, the middle class had less, and the lower class had barely any.

The game got people REALLY worked up. I think that is the point of playing.

Steven ended up in the upper class. I was in the lower class. When it came time to vote on something, he campaigned to make the money distribution more even. His team was full of a bunch of nasty biotches (I knew this because I had been going to class with them all semester) who vetoed him. So on principle, he LEFT the group to join the lower class.

This caused quite a stir.

And apparently prompted one of the biotchy girls to call Steven an “Iowa Farm Boy.”

This upset him.

He’s not from Iowa. He’s from Kansas City, Missouri. Which is kind of a big city. The biotchy girl assumed he was from Iowa, because I am. And for the RECORD, I did not grow up on a farm, and am actually from a very diverse city in Iowa.

Anyway, that story kind of relates to what I am getting at today…

It seems like I have written something similar like this before. Am I repeating myself?!

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Today’s Idiom: I’m from Missouri – a skeptic, one who is not easily convinced

(I’m not even going to attempt to use this one in a sentence – any ideas?)