At 02:19 PM 6/20/01 -0700 Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
>*sigh* this list has taken such a turn to the right in the past year with
>all the most vocal posters (JDG especially, but even Gautam and some
>others) squarely on the conservative side,
I'm sorry that I can no longer empathize with you that this list is no
longer a socialist paradise.... :)
>when
>AMerica has only five percent of the world's billions (Does that mean 95
>percent of the planet is, well, Un-AMerican? Not necessarily undeomcratic,
>but UN-AMERICAN! horrors!)
Well, considering that 25% of the World is Chinese, and we don't know how
*they* really think. Its hard to tell.
>Natural born
>AMericans can and do listen to BBC World Service, and the US press *is*
>awfuly isolationist on a lot of world issues.) So it's *not* black and
>whiite, JDG, Jeroen. And I think we should be paying more attention to the
>perspectives of people who come from other countries, and cultures.
I agree with you on the first and last parts - BBC World Service is a
wonderful source of News. I also find the perspective of _The Economist_
very refreshing at times.
JDG
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