C-da,
I'm sorry but I do not have access to Cable TV like you do. Only after writing me earlier mail I was able to see CNN today at Montgomery college and realize that most of the victims were poor and black. However, I do not see any reason for your accusations of my supposed bias. Maybe it is how you stereotype me.
Umesh
PS: I like to analyse and find some solution -- you did not suggest any solution -- here is mine:
The school system of such places should have programs for not only the students but also community members --- simulation exercises about how to respond in case of such calamities. Esp in coastal areas where such cyclones etc regularly occur.
I'm told that in schools kids have a fire drill (saw a Hollywood movie about Schwartzernegger as a school teacher -showing that).
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
U:
>Seems there is much more to people's intelligence than mere school
>level >education - since nearly ALL are literate in US and have
>money enough to buy >TVs and hire buses to leave the city. Still
>about 100,000 remained in the city >and thousands are supposed to be
>dead.
Dilip explained some of it.
But do you not realize, even after watching all that news coverage,
that not all or even the most ( I don't buy Dilip's characterization
here--even though I have watched perhaps 30 minutes of TV coverage so
far) in serious trouble are either the able bodied, or the
economically able ?
Only thing you did not throw in this time was your racial / gender or
religious stereotyping.
Umesh, it is about time, more so after a year in Harvard, that before
you shoot off these seat-of-the-pants conclusions and judgements,
exercise your reasoning abilities a tad bit more.
Good luck,
c-da
At 6:09 PM +0100 9/2/05, umesh sharma wrote:
>C-da,
>
>It is surprising that so many people are dying even after the
>announcement that ALL must leave the cities being hit by Katrina.
>Seems there is much more to people's intelligence than mere school
>level education - since nearly ALL are literate in US and have money
>enough to buy TVs and hire buses to leave the city. Still about
>100,000 remained in the city and thousands are supposed to be dead.
>
>Umesh
>
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