From: Ralph Lewis (rlewis@csulb.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 19:13:38 MDT
>Ralph, didnt students fight when you were in high school?
NO -- NEVER, I can't remember a fight ever happening in grade or high school.
And this was when the movie "Blackboard Jungle"s was made (so everyone can
guess my age now). Some "hoods" did
carry switchblades but it was more of a fashion statement. Most of the "hoods"
were really nice guys if you actually got to know them as I did in shop class.
>Wow, have things changed so much in 20 years? Did not
>the young criminal element more or less constantly present
>unstated threats (and often very clearly stated threats) against
>the law-abiding majority? You must have grown up in a nice
>neighborhood, Ralph.
Just a normal middle class neighborhood in southern Jersey. Once in junior
or high school one guy (a football player) did push me in the hallway (with
the side of his arm ,not his hand or fist) and I just stood there and gave
him a pissed off look that that stoped him in his tracks. I guess it was an
early jock vs nerd sort of thing.
>
>> God has all civil behavior died in our society?
>
>I dont know. When did all this civil behavior come to life?
>I never saw much that resembled civil behavior until I went
>to college.
Perhaps when we let it die and we stoped telling pepple "that's not cool"
or when we passed so many laws that everyone thought let the law and the
police take care of it.
>To make it clear, I am not defending uncivil behavior or arguing
>that it should be tolerated, just that it has been in the past, and
>that things appear to be changing, so long as the victim is gay.
>In 5th grade, I was once paddled for being mugged. In high school
>our class valedictorian was expelled for two weeks for being the
>victim of a totally unprovoked attack (both long stories). spike
>
You were paddled for BEING mugged!!!!! And I thought I was cynical about
authority.
>
Best Wishes
Ralph
Ralph Lewis, Professor of Management and Human Resources
College of Business
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
rlewis@csulb.edu http://www.csulb.edu/~rlewis
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