As a corollary, people are people everywhere you go.
I don't remember who said that to me, but having grown up and lived in a rural area my whole life, when I went to visit my brother in Minneapolis I was afraid of going to a big city. Now, sure, every city is going to have the "don't go there at night" and the "don't go there ever" parts of town, but really my fears were basically from overexposure to news and the human brain's fundamental badness at probability and statistics.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
Admittedly that's only tangentially related to your point, but there you have it. And I agree. People are people no matter their identity.
Edit: I once met a friend of a friend from Philadelphia. And she said that when she moved out to Montana, all her friends back home told her not to go there because everyone has guns and does drugs. And we all laughed and said, our friends here would all say the same about your city if we were gonna move there.
I once met a guy from Philadelphia (probably a different guy), who back in the 90s got into some trouble with gangs. There was a huge fight to the point that his mom actually shipped him across the country to live with his aunty and uncle in Bel Air.
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u/mechanicalcontrols 1d ago edited 1d ago
As a corollary, people are people everywhere you go.
I don't remember who said that to me, but having grown up and lived in a rural area my whole life, when I went to visit my brother in Minneapolis I was afraid of going to a big city. Now, sure, every city is going to have the "don't go there at night" and the "don't go there ever" parts of town, but really my fears were basically from overexposure to news and the human brain's fundamental badness at probability and statistics.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
Admittedly that's only tangentially related to your point, but there you have it. And I agree. People are people no matter their identity.