Originally Posted by
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With all due respect, I doubt that you or anyone else, in the supercivilized Bay Area or anywhere else, can keep from making judgments about people based on what they wear. If you can't believe it, I think you're naive.
It's how you treat people, in spite of your first-glance, best-guess judgments, that raises people, and generally people in the Bay Area, I would agree, to a level I admire.
Of course people judge people by their looks. Younger people in suite and shiny shoe always give me the expectation of some rude manager / consultant / sales rep ripping off their company, but fortunately enough I'm wrong sometimes and they can actually be nice once in a while