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Re: What Egyptians think of us....
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:57:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Rick Hallman writes:
> A recent disccussion from my English Teacher's old professor on visiting
> Egypt...
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> Upon meeting the college-level students at Cario U. he asked them what they
> thought of the U.S.A... they fuilled the whole 10' by 5' board. He asked if
> they could condense it, they got it to half. After a while of condensing they
> got it to THREE words...
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> 1) Violent!
> 2) Materialistic!
> 3) Arrogant!
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> Now, how would we defend ourselves against this? Remember on 60 Minutes upon
> asking Elian Gonzalas's father about freedom, he said what is freedom? Freedom
> is that freedom in america is about bringing a gun to school.
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> Rick
Wow, a professor who encourages his students to jam an entire country into a
three word stereotype. There's only one word for that: Sad.
Violent? It's all in your point of view. I think Rwanda and Bosnia are violent.
Gonzalas was wrong about that freedom thing.
Now I'm off to buy more cars, because I deserve them more than you do. ;^D
-A
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