The comments to the original Post article are entertaining, looks like
nearly everyone found something to bitch about.

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On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Stephen Thompson <[email protected]>wrote:

> I agree all publications have cultural biases.  However, if Mr. Woodard is
> of
> British Isles descent, then he by definition doesn't have cultural biases
> on this
> subject matter.  Its about the settlement of North America by mostly the
> English.
> Though to be fair there are French, German, African, and First Nation
> peoples
> he discusses.
>
> What particular biases does he show to which you object?
> I am of British and German descent so I wouldn't necessarily recognize
> those
> biases.
>
> StephT
>
>
>
> On 11/9/2013 10:58 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
>
>> Whose writing is not colored by their cultural biases? I didn't find it
>> to be so slanted that I'd consider it to be “tainted," but maybe that's my
>> own cultural bias in play. It seemed pretty reasonable to me.  But then, I
>> haven't read the book itself.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  The concept is tainted by the cultural biases of the author.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Steve Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 10:27 PM
>>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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>>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [FRIAM] 11 American Nations
>>>
>>> An alternative view to the (I can't help but hear it in Dr. Suess'
>>> cadence) Red-State Blue-State version of Murrica.   I don't agree with
>>> it in detail but in sweeping generalizations (5.5x less general than
>>> red/blue?) it captures what I know our cultural "melting pot" to be
>>> crufted into:
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/
>>> which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/
>>>
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