Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!psuvax!simon From: simon@psuvax.UUCP (Janos Simon) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: English-only Speakers as Uncultured Slobs Message-ID: <793@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 11:25:37 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax.793 Posted: Thu Mar 1 11:25:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:44:31 EST References: <5761@decwrl.UUCP> <747@psuvax.UUCP> <201@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 14 [] Ignorance struck again. Culture has nothing to do with pompousness. It even has little with ability to perform one's job. Being able to appreciate art, or being aware of the history, traditions or way of thinking of people from different environments should be an objective in itself - just a part of being human. (as in "Nothing that is human should be alien to me", the classic hyperbolic way of stating this.) No, one is not a better person for knowing that Beethoven is not a dish, or that Hemingway is not a sewing method. Anyone who behaves that way is an idiot. But the glorification of ignorance, anti-intellectualism as a revenge against inferiority feelings is just as stupid. js