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Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:00:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> >
> > > Geography and knowing something about other countries is also probably
> > > much more important to most of the rest of the world.
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> > I think if we all understood each other a little better, life for us all would
> > be much better.
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> 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.
I agree 100%. However, Joe Public has to understand that by bombing/supporting
dictator X, a whole region can be destabilised.
> That's certainly not to imply that
> Americans have any particular skill at cultural empathy, but a
> find-the-country test is no real measure of that shortcoming.
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> > The USA is suffering right now in world opinion because of its
> > perceived isolationist stance.
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> I demand that you retract that statement--there's nothing "perceived"
> about our isolationist stance whatsoever. 8^(
Hmm, and to think I only put "perceived" in to stop any knee jerks...
;)
Scott A
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> Dave!
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