Southern California to Famington (time, couple)

[Erictelevision]

Wouldn't call it "error of your ways", just "there is more out there than what you're used to". FWIW, I vacationed in Mae as a kid, and don't remember seeing ANY PoC.

[Mark S.]

Originally Posted by Erictelevision

FWIW, I vacationed in Mae as a kid, and don't remember seeing ANY PoC.

It's changed. Especially in college towns.

Don't get me wrong. Maine is still very white. But not exclusively. Minority ethnicities are still minorities in Maine, but the one black or Filipino family in town is no longer the only black or Filipino family in most towns. As long as you treat people well, most people will treat you well.

[Erictelevision]

Absolutely! Barb lives the Golden a Rule.

[maineborzoi]

Originally Posted by Mark S.

To the OP:

98% of Mainers are kind, warm, welcoming people with a live and let live attitude. But the one thing that is guaranteed to tick off 99.99% of Mainers is coming to the state with the attitude that other places are better and you have arrived to show the yokels the errors of their ways.

If your friend is moving here with that attitude, then yeah, I am afraid she has a very rude awakening awaiting her. It's not like the locals are going to burn a lobster on her lawn or anything, but I'm afraid she may find herself with very few friends.

Originally Posted by Mark S.

It's changed. Especially in college towns.

Don't get me wrong. Maine is still very white. But not exclusively. Minority ethnicities are still minorities in Maine, but the one black or Filipino family in town is no longer the only black or Filipino family in most towns. As long as you treat people well, most people will treat you well.

When we moved here, from outside Northern Virginia, we were embraced as new arrivals, and met with friendly,helpful, and considerate people. Frankly- haven't met anyone yet, in this state, that wasn't all three descriptions- and more so.

[Maineac]

Originally Posted by maineborzoi

Totally agree.
The issue here also has other aspects.
If the OP's position is to further a 'cause', I also see it has little in the ' what could be gained' department. Very little is the answer.

One can not force/encourage a different demographic etc for the state. It also seems like a 'worthless accomplishment on a resume'. Can you see this- sort of like trying to encourage the growth of pineapples/orange trees in Alaska.... When the OP's others resume reads " diversity in Maine etc", any personal manager worth their salt- will read it as a failure job description as the knowledge of diversity has nothing to do with the actual facts of demographics.

Maine is known for being one of the 'least rude' of all the states- even our drivers. http://www.weather.com/travel/commut...rudest-drivers
The reaction the OP's family will get is silence as " if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" is in full force in Maine. They may as well be coming here to talk about the need to add space heaters to melt the snow....

All the inquiry has about as much application/practical properties as the planting of stated above trees- has no application for basis, has no ability to grow, and nor is it applicable anymore than trying to get California to realize that in a drought to forego filling swimming pools and watering lawns.

Whole purpose of my post is relevance. The reason being that said statements of the purpose/desire to move here to Maine from California - has all the makings and relevance of discussing the tea in China. May as well troll the lakes for sharks...

So you "totally agree" the concept of ". . . Barbara and many other from away disease ridden cronies." That attitude ain't Maine by any stretch of the imagination, it ain't needed here, and I've spent quite a bit of time in California from LA to Crescent City. People are people, good, bad and indifferent. Extreme, spoon-fed politics drives these hateful posts and nothing more. Even Humboldt County (I hung with the fishermen and loggers) has extreme positions. Maybe I'm blind, or maybe I don't have a sufficient political bent to do any more than to point out to other readers that we're not all right wing whack jobs or socialists. We think instead of simply repeat political catch phrases. I just didn't see any of what you guys all seemed to have read into the original posts. You're trying to make "diversity" political and give it a negative connotation. How TP of you.

[AustinB]

Originally Posted by maineborzoi

Totally agree.
The issue here also has other aspects.
If the OP's position is to further a 'cause', I also see it has little in the ' what could be gained' department. Very little is the answer.

One can not force/encourage a different demographic etc for the state. It also seems like a 'worthless accomplishment on a resume'. Can you see this- sort of like trying to encourage the growth of pineapples/orange trees in Alaska.... When the OP's others resume reads " diversity in Maine etc", any personal manager worth their salt- will read it as a failure job description as the knowledge of diversity has nothing to do with the actual facts of demographics.

Maine is known for being one of the 'least rude' of all the states- even our drivers. http://www.weather.com/travel/commut...rudest-drivers
The reaction the OP's family will get is silence as " if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" is in full force in Maine. They may as well be coming here to talk about the need to add space heaters to melt the snow....

All the inquiry has about as much application/practical properties as the planting of stated above trees- has no application for basis, has no ability to grow, and nor is it applicable anymore than trying to get California to realize that in a drought to forego filling swimming pools and watering lawns.

Whole purpose of my post is relevance. The reason being that said statements of the purpose/desire to move here to Maine from California - has all the makings and relevance of discussing the tea in China. May as well troll the lakes for sharks...

The lady is taking a job at the college to try and get different people/students to UMF. It's a job.

[Maineac]

Exactly. How did she evolve into a communist, illegal-loving, 'Merica hating, anti-constitutional, militant islamist just over a job? With a little help from "diseased" politics?

[Erictelevision]

Barbara is very into diversity, and getting people of different backgrounds together, and college students seemed a perfect audience.

[maineborzoi]

Originally Posted by Maineac

So you "totally agree" the concept of ". . . Barbara and many other from away disease ridden cronies." That attitude ain't Maine by any stretch of the imagination, it ain't needed here, and I've spent quite a bit of time in California from LA to Crescent City. People are people, good, bad and indifferent. Extreme, spoon-fed politics drives these hateful posts and nothing more. Even Humboldt County (I hung with the fishermen and loggers) has extreme positions. Maybe I'm blind, or maybe I don't have a sufficient political bent to do any more than to point out to other readers that we're not all right wing whack jobs or socialists. We think instead of simply repeat political catch phrases. I just didn't see any of what you guys all seemed to have read into the original posts. You're trying to make "diversity" political and give it a negative connotation. How TP of you.

Whoa..... you best read my post again -and nothing you have stated is even remotely considered a summary of what I said....
Not even close to even political- nor nothing on hate etc...

Originally Posted by maineborzoi

Totally agree.
The issue here also has other aspects.
If the OP's position is to further a 'cause', I also see it has little in the ' what could be gained' department. Very little is the answer.

One can not force/encourage a different demographic etc for the state. It also seems like a 'worthless accomplishment on a resume'. Can you see this- sort of like trying to encourage the growth of pineapples/orange trees in Alaska.... When the OP's others resume reads " diversity in Maine etc", any personal manager worth their salt- will read it as a failure job description as the knowledge of diversity has nothing to do with the actual facts of demographics.

Maine is known for being one of the 'least rude' of all the states- even our drivers. http://www.weather.com/travel/commut...rudest-drivers
The reaction the OP's family will get is silence as " if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" is in full force in Maine. They may as well be coming here to talk about the need to add space heaters to melt the snow....

All the inquiry has about as much application/practical properties as the planting of stated above trees- has no application for basis, has no ability to grow, and nor is it applicable anymore than trying to get California to realize that in a drought to forego filling swimming pools and watering lawns.

Whole purpose of my post is relevance. The reason being that said statements of the purpose/desire to move here to Maine from California - has all the makings and relevance of discussing the tea in China. May as well troll the lakes for sharks...

And "my agreement" was to Submariners posts " s career military, I have lived in many different places. It would seem to me that moving to a place for the intended purpose of changing the people could be seen as rude.

I thought that part of the enjoyment of settling in new places was to learn how locals do things, and to enjoy their culture. Rather than to try shredding their culture."

[Maineac]

Originally Posted by maineborzoi

Whoa..... you best read my post again -and nothing you have stated is even remotely considered a summary of what I said....
Not even close to even political- nor nothing on hate etc...



And "my agreement" was to Submariners posts " s career military, I have lived in many different places. It would seem to me that moving to a place for the intended purpose of changing the people could be seen as rude.

I thought that part of the enjoyment of settling in new places was to learn how locals do things, and to enjoy their culture. Rather than to try shredding their culture."

Maybe you should go back and read the quoted post above your post. The boy from Argyle is not quoted, nor mentioned. Maybe you made a mistake "totally agreeing" with one of the posts you quoted that basically called the lady and her acquaintances "diseased cronies." That's as far right, and unwarranted, as it gets. Still, after all this, none of this evolution created by repeated posts focused on the words "she wants to help with diversity" (I paraphrase, but presumably as an admissions officer at UMFK - but that's the ONLY presumption I make, unlike all the other posts) that pigeonholes the lady, says "she'll never make it," and the "how dare you" attitude is pretty sad. All springing from spoon-fed politics that, until one of these people open their mouths, for the most part isn't prevalent in Maine.