The comments to the original Post article are entertaining, looks like nearly everyone found something to bitch about.
-- rec -- 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 < >>> [email protected]> >>> 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/ >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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