Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:54:41 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <15264.977.607982.267671@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010913003615.15AE137B401@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010913003615.15AE137B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> types: > One thing I did learn from that experience is that the United States looks > MUCH different from the outside. I recommend World Press Review <URL: http://www.worldpress.org/ > to get a less biased view of the US. Their yearly comparison of the top 10 news stories as rated by various world news organizations is particularly enlightening. > In this country we're raised to believe that > America is #1 and that anything foreign is worthless crap, be it products, > ideas or people. However, people in other countries see through all that. > They see us for what we really are -- a bunch of spoiled, arrogant pricks who > get upset at the thought of other parts of the world being different than us. This is a perfect example of what I talked about earlier - people using this to push their own private agenda. You appear to be using this to push cultural relativism, whereas I've already got mail from people using it to bash culturual relativism. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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