From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 31 6: 1:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E88437B40A for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 06:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1D50C756F; Fri, 31 May 2002 06:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9D71D8E; Fri, 31 May 2002 06:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 06:03:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Martin Karlsson Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) In-Reply-To: <20020527200708.GB441@foo31-146.visit.se> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 May 2002, Martin Karlsson wrote: :* Terry Lambert [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message