John UpdikeThe true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” This quote was written by Saul Bellow and published in the New Yorker in 1975. It’s a great example of how we all think we know what we think about people who live outside our home city. We don’t know them well enough to know what makes them tick and we certainly don’t know them well enough to understand their perspectives and motives. But we still judge and stereotype them based on nothing more than appearances or what we hear others say about them.
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