Shopping: “My large rant post was not about saying all charedi people don’t go to college, but guess what, a lot don’t”
I didn’t read that post (I don’t have time to read all the posts!) and I wasn’t commenting on that. I wouldn’t have a problem with that. Talking about what Chareidim do or don’t do is not (necessarily) a problem since you are talking about a hashkafa, and it is part of the hashkafa to try to avoid college.
I was talking about the generalizations of Americans and Israelis. When I mentioned college, I was referring to Sparkly’s comment that Americans do go to college, since there are plenty of Americans who are against college.
I also don’t agree with your comments that boys in Israel have never seen a television or a computer. There are plenty of boys in Israel who have seen a television or a computer, and there are plenty of Americans who haven’t. It has no connection to being American or Israeli – it has to do with how Yeshivish you are. Just for the record, I happen to know many more people in EY with computers than in the US! (which has to do with who I know in each country, but it proves that you have to be careful with generalizations)
I realize that both yours and Sparkly’s comments were probably in response to each other’s posts that I hadn’t read, but if you read the posts by themselves, it does sound like a comparison of Americans and Israelis, so I think it is kidai to be careful about making these types of comments.
Bottom line though in terms of the topic at hand is that as you put it: everyone is ready to get married at a different age and it is very closed-minded for anyone to say that there is only one right way to do things. What age someone is ready to get married at is dependent on many factors, and everyone is different, and no one should be judging others!