Subj : Re: [OT] Iraq, USA, World, politics, etc. (Was Re: Mandrake vs Suse)
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Willem van der Berg
Date : Thu Aug 26 2004 12:30 pm

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:46:26 -0400, Keifer wrote:
> Not only does it go both ways, there are some Americans that think that
> the majority of ammerica is arrogant. i'm one of them...

The madness will only stop when people can no longer hide behind a group.
I mean, I live in Holland. There's 16 million of us. The only thing I have
done to become Dutch is to be accidently born here. Does that give me the
right to speak as the whole group, for Holland? Most of my fellow Dutch
probably couldn't even find Holland on an unmarked map. Most certainly
don't show any indication of basic intelligence... Anyway, if I were to
speak on behave of the Dutch I would be making a very bad mistake: what I
have in common with t ALL other Dutch is probably equally little as what I
have in common with ALL other Americans or anyone for that matter.
Stimulating patriotism is nothing more than stimulating a sense of being
different (and in America's case, being better, superior) than another
group of people. Carelessly forgetting that there wasn't a group to begin
with.

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