Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 06:03:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205310600540.15249-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20020527200708.GB441@foo31-146.visit.se>
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On Mon, 27 May 2002, Martin Karlsson wrote: :* Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [2002-05-26 15.07 -0700]: :[...snipped good points...] :> Frankly, most people in the U.S. simply can't understand the ethnic :> based conflicts in various parts of the world. From the general :> population's point of view, it's impossible to tell an ethnic Serb :> from an ethnic Croat, unless one of them stands up at a podium and :> yells "_I_ am an _ethnic Serb_!". :I can't (and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this) understand :how one can _not_ understand the ethnic based conflicts in various :parts of the world. The U.S. is perhaps something of a special case in this :respect, because its population is composed of people from :all around the world, with basically only two unifying factors, the :constitution and the English language. : :BTW, did you know that Finns carry knives all the time and basically live in :the sauna, and that Norwegians are somewhat stupid? Well, of course :this is not true(?), but these are "truths" everybody knows in :Sweden. (And Finns asume all Swedish men are gay because... etc. :etc.) :Are there American myths of this sort about Canadians or Mexicans? Canadians are Americans without guns who drink too much and live in the frozen wastelands of the north; Mexicans are the nice Spanish speaking people who join gangs and clean houses and do other shit jobs we don't want, but we bitch about them entering our country anyway. I could possibly make that more offensive if I was really trying, but that's probably enough stereotyping to piss at least a few people off. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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