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Weather has nothing to do with it. Players like playing for Chicago, New York, and Boston...
What's wrong with SLC?
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GVC
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Dude, LA is at least 93% douche.
I grew up in 21216. It was very awesome.
GVC
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Thought they were called implants.
Stifle Tower
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Hey, I resemble, I mean resent that remark.
Unless you're native American, you're a transplant too.
JAZZFAN_2814
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Oh. So maybe Utah is the problem after all?
Huh.
So far as owning more than one home -- and passing that off as a smoking gun -- it seems you're only compounding the points as to the backwater nature of SLC and the lacking logic of the hoi polloi that live there.
What a revelation. More than one home. Wow.
And I was the tasty little speck o'vanilla.
JAZZFAN_2814
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Maybe all the "transplants" should just pack up all the first-world infrastructure and go "home", leaving this great count...er, continent to its original and natural splendor.
So far as 'native' Americans -- a definition that is itself an oxymoron, and stratifying in such a way as to be suggestively intolerant if not outright tribalist/racist -- something like Kennewick man points towards another possible truth as to this continent's first inhabitants, which is likewise why Indian Casino Owners of the world want no one to discuss or know about it.
Wasn't it, also, stated that 'native' Americans were sage because they understood that man could not own the land? Wasn't this a maxim for the indian? If so, how could anyone steal it from them?
Hm.
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No, I'm just foolin'. Been watching a LOT of The Wire recently.
vegas
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When I lived in Europe, the coolest people were black...just sayin
I can accept that a black player would feel more comfortable in cities with more than 2% black population and about 80% white population. With less than 50% of SLC being Mormon, and 30% being imports, SLC is different than say provo, but that doesn't change the stereotype. Being from Utah, knowing the stereotype, you make an effort to make sure that when people move in they feel welcome.
Though Mormon missionaries are awkward, they know what it's like to be in a new city, often surrounded by a new culture and ethnicity. A lot of them are from Utah--they can sympathize with people coming into a place filled with people that are different.
At the end of the day, Utah will always have a different culture than anywhere else in the nation. People will always be afraid of what is not familiar and I think most Utahns fight that negative parts of that image/stereotype, but they also accept the fact that Utah will always be different because it truly has its own culture.
Final point is that there is just about every subculture under the sun in Utah, especially SLC. The lack of 'scene' in Utah is the biggest thing I would say Utah lacks for players...outdoors all day, but not much scene.
I can accept that a black player would feel more comfortable in cities with more than 2% black population and about 80% white population. With less than 50% of SLC being Mormon, and 30% being imports, SLC is different than say provo, but that doesn't change the stereotype. Being from Utah, knowing the stereotype, you make an effort to make sure that when people move in they feel welcome.
Though Mormon missionaries are awkward, they know what it's like to be in a new city, often surrounded by a new culture and ethnicity. A lot of them are from Utah--they can sympathize with people coming into a place filled with people that are different.
At the end of the day, Utah will always have a different culture than anywhere else in the nation. People will always be afraid of what is not familiar and I think most Utahns fight that negative parts of that image/stereotype, but they also accept the fact that Utah will always be different because it truly has its own culture.
Final point is that there is just about every subculture under the sun in Utah, especially SLC. The lack of 'scene' in Utah is the biggest thing I would say Utah lacks for players...outdoors all day, but not much scene.
SaltyDawg
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True, but they would rather play in Miami or L.A. than any of those cold weather cities.
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JAZZFAN_2814
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What's ironic, and telling, is the enforced nature of 'diversity' -- meaning, simply, that the same people that consider themselves either diversity personified or its protector, can't accept Utah because it's...different.
Why a homogeneous region should automatically be shunned for that selfsame reason is, I suppose, obvious. But also contradictory to any idea of tolerance; it's simply inverted judgment from the 50s, and its own kind of hate.
Certainly, any concept of the color blind society is just a bait and switch.
But then, how redundant and politburo-like is enforced diversity? Diversity is inherent to the planet, and the idea that liberals-playing-G-d are somehow the only ones to make it possible is laughable sophistry on a grand scale.
Beyond polemics, Utah is seen as boring.
It's somewhere between SWPL and midwest hick, at least as uncomfortable perception. Fair? Not really.
But we're talking about PR, and therein perception rules all.
JAZZFAN_2814
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GVC
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Something we can all agree with.