Neutral ground is so hard to come by.
The bartenders, here, put up with people and behaviour that wouldn't be tolerated for a moment anywhere else. The Good, the Bad and the Uncanny, and the In-between, are always welcome. It is to the credit of the management that it has always enforced—at times, viciously—a general truce that has made the Wulfshead one of the few real neutral grounds left around.
It has been said that truth is the first casualty of war, more so at a time when the censorship and ostracism of those whose viewpoints the dominant culture disagree with have become the norm.
Others' beliefs or frame of reference are "wrong" or, worse, just simply "meaningless."
And "if there's no meaning in it,"said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any."
An early example of such sentiment in Western culture is the Ancient Greek denigration of foreigners as "barbarians", the belief that the Greek people and culture were superior to all others, and the subsequent conclusion that all others were naturally meant to be subjugated.
Xenophobia can also be exhibited as an uncritical generalization of another culture which is ascribed an unreal, stereotypical and exotic quality.
It's true!
Many are those in the West who had not even heard of Transnistria until today.
And many are those who still do mistake Moldova for Mordavia:
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