At 9:00 PM +0100 9/2/05, umesh sharma wrote:
C-da,
I'm sorry but I do not have access to Cable TV like you do.
**** My heart goes out for deprivation U :-). That is double
trouble. You made your assessment with even less information than I
thought you had. Not a good tack if you asked me.
But my old friend, the Large Animal Shrink Dr. Tilok Hatimuria
tells me that
is not where the problem is. It is apparently in the receptors in
the visual and aural centers of your psyche. Some of them are either
partially shut down or on temporarily disabled mode, that allows
certain information to register and others to be refused entry. It is
a kind of selective information processing in the field of LAS. Kind
of a neurological semi-conductor array I imagine.
But not to worry, you can reactivate the receptors with a tad bit
of extra interest in listening and observing :-).
Take care
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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