Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: America-bashing Message-ID: <333@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 19:34:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.333 Posted: Mon Jul 8 19:34:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:38:32 EDT References: <3140@drutx.UUCP> <1340259@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 42 Summary: In article <1340259@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes: >>/* csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) / 4:59 pm Jul 3, 1985 */ > >>Now most Americans don't feel SUPERIOR to Europeans outwardly, but the fact >>that they don't consider them important enough to study is somewhat >>presumptuous and implies superiority. > >I disagree with this point. Many Americans may indeed feel SUPERIOR to >Europeans, but the fact that they don't consider them important enough to >study doesn't necessarily imply such feelings. I didn't mention feelings. I was talking state of being. I said it implied they ARE superior not that they FEEL superior. Implications are implications whether or not they are backed up by real feelings. >>not a good image either. > >It's not image that is important. One can pin labels such as >ignorant on people, but if their ignorance has no adverse >consequences, people probably won!'t and shouldn't care. > >>Charles Forsythe > > Mike Sykora Image is what we were discussing. Somebody was upset at the suggestion that the rest of the world hates America. They wrote a long letter about how wonderful we really are. Maybe it's true, but it's our image that counts in this situation. A friend of mine returned from England and told me: "Depending where you are, Russia and America are first and second on the list of the most hated country." Food for thought. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack. No one knows about it." -Rev. Wang Zeep