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 I couldn't help but be somewhat uncomfortable with the way we visited.  The whole time I was remembering my uncle Rick, who is a farmer in rural Minnesota~ and his theories.  He's extremely, extremely smart, but in such a different, almost incomparable way.  Like an extreme pragmatist.  I felt uncomfortable asserting any sort of knowledge or blaring statistics at him~ and I don't think he was offensive at all.  I think he spoke of what he observed, and his comments of 'none of you could do this work' and 'crazy mexican driver' were extrapolated by all of us into prejudice that, really, I don't think exists.  We're all like Thoreau waltzing in on the farmer and critiquing his living habits~ and I hope Pete wasn't offended by us.  To be questioned, at least in Minnesota, about the way they do things sparks suspicion~ like we suspect they're doing something wrong, and feel a superior moral obligation to point it out to them~ to instruct them, really, with our ample supply of book knowledge.... I dunno.  I really liked that farm.