Spring-Loaded
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At least where I live, it seems any acknowledgement of that the worse aspects of our area (e.g. "there are a lot of racists in this community") gets dismissed more or less, even though the people I work alongside acknowledge existence of racism/bad local government/etc. and call out non-local instances of it in the news. Negative opinions about our city are notably unpopular to the point I tend not to bring it up.
Is this a universal constant, where people want to defend their hometown/neighborhood, or is the level of defensiveness notably different from place to place?
Is this a universal constant, where people want to defend their hometown/neighborhood, or is the level of defensiveness notably different from place to place?