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Originally Posted by lostalex

again you keep nit picking about the WHOLE nation, as if you can't talk about countries unless you account for every single individual....

You are so adverse to generalizations. Which is fair enough, i agree generalizations are obnoxious. but you can't have discussions about large issues without using some generalizations.

You are shutting down the conversation by using the exceptions and the outliers, how do you have a conversations about large groups of people and nations if you don't use generalizations though?

By making a qualifying statement like "many ___ are this" or "during World War II, a lot of ____ did that" - instead of just writing off an entire group of people with an offensive label like "they're all evil" or whatever the case may be.