Sorry! It seems that I sent what is below under a wrong subject title, so here it comes again. I was planning to respond to Doug under the previous subject title but somehow got confused I guess.
By the way, Doug is someone I met in the real world and liked, despite that I disagree with him more often than not in the virtual world. Is that not funny? The other day Louis left the A-List because as a moderator of the list I sided with Yoshie. This virtual world is very strange. When are we arranging our PEN-L night at Socialista my New Yorker friends? Sabri > The US is arguably the exception that proves the rule, but the US > is really historically unique in material ways. > > David Shemano I doubt it! The Ottoman Empire was not significantly different than the US and it was more advanced in many ways: for example, not only it was multi-ethnic and multi-religous, but also it was multi-lingual. Many of the Ottoman subjects spoke two or three languages even at home, among the family. A few years ago I asked Micheal P: What is the American cuisine? For example is sushi American, that is, USian, or not, or szechuan beef, or calamari, or veal parmigiana? They are as American as they are Japanese, Chinese, Greek or Italian, in my view. The same goes for the Turkish cuisine, that is, the Ottoman cousine. Sabri ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
