You are unbelievably out-of-touch with the state of the world and social relations, although citing twelfth-century verse isn't in itself inexcusably outmoded.

The other poster is right about tit-for-tat. I'm afraid you're giving advice of the "let them eat cake" variety.

In other words, you don't seem to recognize that America not a society of equals.

Maybe I should read Canterbury Tales, though. Is the knight high-born?