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Originally Posted by 33girl
It's Pennsylvania. We are provincial. We admit it. That's life. We go to our $100k a year jobs with Steeler jackets worn on top of our suits (because that's your good winter coat.)
Will everyone stop jumping down ASTAlumna06's throat if she qualifies her statements with "In the Northeast"?
So, basically what everyone else is trying to say is that the same scandal could happen at LSU, or Bama, or Illinois?
As far as the WVU example, sorry, it's just not the same. The state's about a tenth of the size.
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First off I didn't say Pennsylvania was provincial - I said what several of you said sounded provincial. I should have clarified what I meant by that - I mean in the sense that the word means narrow or lacking broadmindedness. In this same sense people in my state are often make statements that sound provincial - I personally don't consider that an acceptable thing. I hope it's something we strive to change.
Instead I would hope that if many pointed out to us a particular situation we believe is unique to us really isn't and we should broaden our horizons a bit before drawing that conclusion - we would consider that our previous assumptions might be incorrect and adjust them.
I don't see any place where I "jumped down" ASTalumna06's throat, and if she feels that I did, I want to apologize to her. That wasn't my intent. I don't see anything I wrote that could be read that way. I disagreed with her, but I tried to make every effort to be polite in doing so.
She said she grew up in the northeast and she stated that the type of relationship between Pennsylvania and Penn State doesn't exist there. That I understood, and I stated that I could see where that would be the case. All I suggested was this probably explained why the situation in Pennsylvania seemed unique to her, but if she had spent time in another part of the country she probably wouldn't find that to be the case, and she should probably do that before making the assumption that it is a unique situation.
I don't see what West Virginia's size or the size of any other state mentioned as a comparison has to do with this. In the context of explaining why Pennsylvania is uniquely focused on Penn State, you asserted that it was partially due to Pennsylvania's poor economy and a need to focus on the one good thing they had going for them. I simply pointed out that the same circumstances exists in West Virginia and has for a much longer period of time and to a much greater degree, so that situation also isn't unique to Pennsylvania. I'm not seeing how size is relevant to that. Could you explain?
Again, my intention isn't to offend you or any of the other posters from Pennsylvania. For me, I simply want you to allow for the possibility that a school whose characteristics and relationship to its state seem so unique to you - aren't as unique and unusual as you believe them to be.
So now I've clearly used up my quota on the word unique for the year, I'll conclude my little treatise.