don’t know about oz, but in israel

by judih

Posted to Utterances on 2001-10-21 08:47:00

Parent message is 46592
every area has its style
Jerusalem hebrew is distinctive
northern Tel Aviv, (traditionally best part of town) compared to southern Tel Aviv (getting hip lately)

everywhere its a dialect thing
We are a land of mostly immigrants – first, second or third generation.
Every wave of immigration came from a different part of the world……and each wave suffered being the low dude on the totem poll…
one wave after another……

Pluralism is our themesong. We’ll never melt into a pot.
Take a room full of Israelis, and there’s not a pot big enough for the number of opinions that will demand to be dominant.



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