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Old 09-12-2011, 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by DCWilson View Post

Kind of a side issue, but sociologists know that America is one of the few places in the world where a direct gaze is not automatically considered confrontational.
I think a lot of sociologists would find themselves very dead if they tested that theory in the flakier parts of many metropolitan areas of the US. Just read your local paper and see how many murders and beat downs start because somebody "did not like the way he/she was looking at me".