From: Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: Re: Waay OT - America (was: Ada?)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:48:18 +0100 (MET)
Date: 2002-03-22T07:48:18+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1016779803.31526.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
From: dennison@telepath.com
> Adrian Hoe <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote in message
news:<3C97EF08.1AFB3D05@greenlime.com>...
> > Germans, Malaysians!, Chinese and Vietnamese and even CLA. I like
> > America but I personally disagree her politically. (I am not a
> > politician, ok? This is just my personal point of view :)
>
> Well, realise that this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. "America"
> isn't an entity that has one single coherent political view with which
> one can decide to disagree. There are about 300 million different
> politicial views in this country. Many of them are bound to fall on
> either side of yours.
>
> I noticed the other day that a poll was run in various middle eastern
> countries asking their views of America.
America, America ... not all of America is the USA. There are about 30 other
countries on this continent!
US citizens tend to see their country as encompassing the whole world. Even we
in Germany (or even whole of Europe?) are infected with this disease by feeling
forced to speak of US citizens as "Americans".
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-22 6:48 Christoph Grein [this message]
2002-03-22 12:37 ` Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Reinert Korsnes
2002-03-22 14:54 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-22 15:44 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-22 17:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-22 18:10 ` Jim Rogers
2002-03-22 18:21 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-22 18:18 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-23 0:14 ` Waay OT - America Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 12:32 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-25 9:03 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-03-25 10:17 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-02 9:42 ` Frank
2002-03-26 0:53 ` Continentalizing the UK (still): Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-30 10:26 ` Philip Anderson
2002-04-02 19:53 ` Divide NOT? (sort of still): " Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-03 1:09 ` Jim Rogers
2002-03-22 18:34 ` Darren New
2002-03-22 18:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-22 23:57 ` Waay OT - America Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 1:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-22 19:24 ` Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Larry Hazel
2002-03-22 23:56 ` Waay OT - America Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 0:30 ` Darren New
2002-03-23 0:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 15:10 ` tony
2002-03-23 15:16 ` Gary Scott
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-19 21:21 Ada? anymous
2002-02-24 3:23 ` Ada? Nick Roberts
2002-02-27 15:26 ` Ada? Enrico A.
2002-03-19 15:06 ` Ada? Colin Paul Gloster
2002-03-19 20:57 ` Ada? Ted Dennison
2002-03-20 2:08 ` Ada? Adrian Hoe
2002-03-21 15:12 ` Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Ted Dennison
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