From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 12 17:54:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5989637B401 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 49782 invoked by uid 100); 13 Sep 2001 00:54:41 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15264.977.607982.267671@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:54:41 -0500 To: Milo Hyson Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror In-Reply-To: <20010913003615.15AE137B401@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010913003615.15AE137B401@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Milo Hyson types: > One thing I did learn from that experience is that the United States looks > MUCH different from the outside. I recommend World Press Review to get a less biased view of the US. Their yearly comparison of the top 10 news stories as rated by various world news organizations is particularly enlightening. > In this country we're raised to believe that > America is #1 and that anything foreign is worthless crap, be it products, > ideas or people. However, people in other countries see through all that. > They see us for what we really are -- a bunch of spoiled, arrogant pricks who > get upset at the thought of other parts of the world being different than us. This is a perfect example of what I talked about earlier - people using this to push their own private agenda. You appear to be using this to push cultural relativism, whereas I've already got mail from people using it to bash culturual relativism. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message