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Re: the LEGO corporation is a sinister arm of Western global hegemony?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:49:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> From the National Review.
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> I don't necessarily agree with all of Peter's reasoning but I found it an
> interesting read. You may as well, or not.
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> http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-wood112101.shtml
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> I found the last paragraph
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> "And, in a roundabout way, the Maori have made their peace with
> globalization. They are "normal" now in the new sense of acting like any
> other interest group that pays itself in the lighter-than-air coinage of
> symbolic victimhood. To be the self-declared victim of a mild-mannered toy
> company may seem a small thing when your ancestors trounced British armies
> and fought colonial militias to a standstill, but times change. I look
> forward to the day when the descendants of Pashtun warlords too are griping
> about intellectual-property rights."
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> especially amusing.
And I'd like to know where I can get all 6 Toa for $19.99!
ROSCO
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