[UA] Greetings

[James O'Rance]

Epoch <msulliva at wso.williams.edu> said:

 >>>The thing is, I don't think that you've been informed /correctly/. <<<

We can never know things as they are, only as they appear to be.

(In UA, this appears not to be true; however, knowing things as they are 
seems to set you on fire - see Statosphere)

 >>>I'm going to go out on a limb, based on what gets media attention here 
in the States, and suggest that you probably have the black-white tensions 
overemphasized to you, and then get the latinos either totally ignored or 
wrapped up into the blacks, which, in my view at least, very much misses the 
point.<<<

I'm aware of some latino issues, but I'm not sure if that's common knowledge 
here - my best friend has a "thing" for latinos, watches as many American 
documentaries and news concerning latinos in America as he can, and then 
plays then occasionally in rpgs.

 >>>I'm not suggesting that we know more of Australia than you think -- I'm 
suggesting that you probably know less of the U.S. than you think.<<<

Oh, I'd extend that to most topics. Recognising the limits of my knowledge 
keeps me curious about the world. However, my point was not that I'm 
well-versed in American social politics, but that America displays itself to 
the world far more than it looks at the rest of the world.

 >>>Deirdre Brooks, a freelancer who works primarily on White Wolf products, 
suggested a corrolary to Godwin's law, suggesting that "As a thread 
lengthens, the probability of a European randomly bashing the
U.S. approaches unity."<<<

Australians are certainly critical and sometimes mock the US - but what is 
often poorly understood is that we do it to ourselves just as much if not 
more. Australian humour can be extremely self-deprecating. It's a healthy 
dose of self-disrespect.

I don't know if this applies to folks of various European nations. Some 
brits, perhaps.


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/



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