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Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:57:34 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote:
> I can explain it for you, once we all agree upon the definition of "for".
> :-P
>
> It's a scary statistic that there are more, ahh, minorities on death row in
> the U.S. than there are, ahh, majorities. I'm hinting at the various social
> and economic and regional situations which may or may not have eventually
> sent these people to be executed.
Get close, get really, really close.... OK? Maybe <shrudder> there are more
"minorities" committing capitol crimes than "majorities", whatever that means.
>
> (I believe) Chris is alluding to the "cultural cleansing" of the Aboriginal
> people by the colonial settlers of Australia, driven by a mindset which is
> all too often reveled in even today. It happens pretty much the same way
> here in the States, and at quite a few other places as well.
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> I lived at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands for most
> of my life, and I personally witnessed the American policy of corrupting and
> destroying an indeginious culture for their own purposes.
Is this a fact, is it somewhere on the web, or do you have references for actual
U.S. policies, i.e. House Bill 98-205? Or is this another IMHO or something. I
have heard about how "evil" the US has been in just about every faucet of life,
but I never hear of the former USSR, Europe, etc. Why is that? The US has made
mistakes, it is not perfect, but I am still glad I live here.
Scott S.
> > “The more people I meet, the more I like my Lego collection.”
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> Good quote.
Thanks, I feel that even more as I venture too far off Lugnet.
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
--
Scott E. Sanburn
CADD Operator, CADD Systems Administrator
Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI
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“The more people I meet, the more I like my Lego collection.”
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