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Pip · 11-05-2006, 02:42 PM

Don't fight about boundaries of colours! Everyone loses. I've nearly come to blows with good friends about the boundaries of pink and lilac.

In this situation, where the professor-guy's definition of a WASP is probably more behaviour-based than the technical, ethnical definition, then a technical objection, like Gilda's, will come across as irrelevant to him. I guess. So maybe you could've asked him for his definition of a WASP, and then worked from that. And also, he was probably embarrased because you called him out on labelling you, which is in itself a nasty thing to do. Labelling, that is.

11-05-2006, 02:42 PM	#42 (permalink)
Pip Likes Hats Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Don't fight about boundaries of colours! Everyone loses. I've nearly come to blows with good friends about the boundaries of pink and lilac. In this situation, where the professor-guy's definition of a WASP is probably more behaviour-based than the technical, ethnical definition, then a technical objection, like Gilda's, will come across as irrelevant to him. I guess. So maybe you could've asked him for his definition of a WASP, and then worked from that. And also, he was probably embarrased because you called him out on labelling you, which is in itself a nasty thing to do. Labelling, that is.