>>1470075>do you think all white people use referral networks in order to find friends that go /out/ in order to avoid black people?Person you're replying to here. You're asking this while replying to a post where I went out of my way to clarify that this is NOT what I meant. The fuck is wrong with you, son?
Referral networks are used generally, for a lot of things, not necessarily for finding hiking buddies. However, people who have a habit of using referral networks simply. don't. check. online. classifieds.... at least as much as people who don't rely on referral networks as much. Everybody that I specifically quoted in my post
>>1470064 knows this and understands how it leads to the present, real problem. "Referral culture" exists for a variety of reasons, in different regions, to different degrees, but where it exists, it tends to make it hard to find a hiking buddy, since referral culture people are harder to get in contact with, by people outside their social network.
People in the east use referral networks for a wide variety of things, like finding a job, finding a realtor, finding a dentist, finding a girlfriend/boyfriend to date and so forth. I know this from personal experience living in several states for extended periods of time, both to the east and west of the Rockies. If you're from an eastern or midwestern city, and then you go spend time somewhere like Denver, Boulder, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Salt Lake City, Boise, Jackson Hole, etc., you'll find that it's far easier to meet new people, in any variety of contexts, than it was to meet new people in your home town. If you can't appreciate the differences that manifest in culture from very significant demographic differences, then that's your own failing. I believe I've explained the relevant factors in plenty of detail at this point. Any further vitriolic posts like
>>1470075 or
>>1470076 will be ignored.
