>It means that the OPs implied assertion that I fit his (probable) stereotype of the ignorant gringo is obviously incorrect.
No. You could still be fitting his stereotype to a T. It's just that his way of determining it was inaccurate (but it wasn't meant to be taken literally in the first place).
"Try living there" should be read as "try walking in their shoes / understanding them", not as "live in that physical space".
One could be living in a country and have no fucking clue how the population thinks and feels. Westerners, with their expat clubs and little isolated houses, are very good at this. But even a local can achieve this ignorance. How many rich americans really know how "the other half lives", be it blacks, hispanics, white trash, etc?
>Not sure how you get that, or even what it means, really.
It means the "general sentiment" about something in a place.
If you doubt that such a thing exists about the issue of american intervention in latin countries, then you don't have a very good grasp of politics and/or reality (at least in this matter).
No. You could still be fitting his stereotype to a T. It's just that his way of determining it was inaccurate (but it wasn't meant to be taken literally in the first place).
"Try living there" should be read as "try walking in their shoes / understanding them", not as "live in that physical space".
One could be living in a country and have no fucking clue how the population thinks and feels. Westerners, with their expat clubs and little isolated houses, are very good at this. But even a local can achieve this ignorance. How many rich americans really know how "the other half lives", be it blacks, hispanics, white trash, etc?
>Not sure how you get that, or even what it means, really.
It means the "general sentiment" about something in a place.
If you doubt that such a thing exists about the issue of american intervention in latin countries, then you don't have a very good grasp of politics and/or reality (at least in this matter).