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Subject:	Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:01:31 GMT
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> Geography and knowing something about other countries is also probably > much more important to most of the rest of the world. I think if we all understood each other a little better, life for us all would be much better. I have seen a relatively small part of the world, but I have learned a lot from *every* country I have visited and *every* culture I have experienced. The USA is suffering right now in world opinion because of its perceived isolationist stance. I respect you a great deal, but your comment above did remind we of that point. Nations like Iraq & Iran are composed of real people with hopes and aspirations just like you or I. Perhaps if we recognised that a little more, we'd have been less likely to supported their oppression in that past and be less likely bomb them in the future? When the USA first entered the War in North Africa in WW2 they thought they had nothing to learn on desert warfare from the Allies. The result was a crushing defeat and humble pie. In short, there is no point in repeating the mistakes others have already made. Scott A

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		Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
(...) That's very true, but I think it's more important to be able to understand and empathize with the people of Djibouti, for instance, than it is to be able to find their nation on the map. That's certainly not to imply that Americans have any (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
(...) I probably should have worded the above a little more carefully. I did not mean to imply that people in the US do not need to understand other peoples (though even there, I would argue that there is still less need for a cashier in the US to (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
(...) One thing which makes me tend not to trust these education surveys is that in the US, almost every child goes through high school, and a huge percentage go to college. In other countries, starting somewhere around the high school age (or even (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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