One of my biggest pet peeves is people with closed-minds.  They are no fun, they can’t have fun unless is something they are very familiar with.  For example, two day ago I was in my friend’s room and a girl comes over that I have never meet before.  I decided to start a conversation with her.  I made some small talk at first but then I decided to ask what kind of music she liked.  It seemed like an okay question to ask especially since I had a guitar in my lap.  The answer was “Only Heavy Metal, nothing else.”  I asked her about some classic bands like Pink Floyd and so on.  She said she never heard of them and she reminded me she only listened to Hard Rock.   I then made the mistake to ask her where she was from and how big the town was.  As I guessed it was a small town in ND somewhere. 

I’m not saying all people from small towns have closed-minds.  Just that most people need to realize that there is a world outside the town they live in.  That there is a world outside that is vastly diverse.  There are many things we can learn from other cultures and sub-cultures.  Watch out though, keeping an open-mind may cause and intellectual growth.