Originally Posted by
calcapt
Actually, I was the top dog in my class! Since my repertoire on this forum is humility, among other things, I have never told anyone.

That's only because I was not in your class.
While I would agree that SOME minorities hold the view Coulditbe has described, I can't help but notice that he failed to mention those that would discount and disregard others simply by sight. They let their bias cloud their judgement and don't give some people a chance because they "KNOW" they could never do it. Are they not just as bad? They say stuff like "Wow, he speaks so well!" Considering english is his first language, is that really so surprising?
What you have are two extremes that are equally troublesome. Neither is acceptable. Somewhere in the middle is a solution. Now, how do we get there? On a Airbus 380 perhaps.................