Is it too much to ask for acceptance of our differences?

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While I enjoyed watching Hogan's Heroes years ago, I'm not sure I ever consciously related personally to any of the characters ... thinking about it now, the closest I would come would be Col. Robert Hogan.

About the whole "preference for Germany thing" ... do you mean something like favorite football teams? Like in the US, the rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Buffalo Bills? I know a Buffalo Bills fan who got beat up by a Pittsburgh Steelers fan ... it went public so that the Mayor of Pittsburgh himself ended up apologizing to the Bills fan and giving him a key to the city as a peace offering.

Or is your preference like being a fan of Darth Vader and the Empire instead of Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance?

Again, having worked with Germans, I can tell you that while the culture has some differences from American culture, deep down we're all human beings ... and none of the Germans I worked with acted like anyone from Hogan's Heroes.

So what is it about Germany that you prefer?

Personally, I like homemade Bavarian-style beef sauerbraten and dumplings with gravy ... and not the tiny little spaetzle dumplings that look like noodles, I'm talking about huge potato dumplings as big as your hand. As for the beer, I like Warsteiner. Of course there's far more to Germany than the food, but I was blessed to have a grandfather who could cook German cuisine from scratch.

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I'm sorry, this comment tickled my funny bone!

I don't accept most people, period.

But I still go out of my way to show them love.

I love those I don't accept.

Trolling has corrupted this thread. If it continues, offenders will be banned.

Would you explain how, and in what way?

"Trolling" is a vague and unhelpful description for understanding how to avoid being an offender.

Clarification, if you please.

Oh wait, my bad. I see how, now.

Never mind. Nighty night!

The responses so far show precisely why, as unfortunate as it may seem, that I took to telling people that I was involved in a terrible accident, that I was hit by a drunk driver while biking, and it almost killed me - I suffered several broken bones and a head injury (concussion), so at least in telling people that, they looked at me as "one of them" from the get-go, no genetic abominations or alien being treatment. Unfortunately the downside was that any kind of "not right in the head" or mental illness symptoms are taboo/stigma, so in telling them that I didn't feel like my old self after the head injury, they were still somewhat wary of me. I didn't really get the cynical treatment that I was just manipulating them for pity, though, because the story is credible enough and has happened to many a person unfortunately.

I posted a similar statement about 3-4 years ago in here, on a thread all its own...most didn't agree with me, but it is my opinion at the end of the day. I just didn't want to be persecuted, so I felt compelled to pretend. As Dr. Tony Atwood once declared, "you don't suffer from Aspergers - you suffer from other people".