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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America-bashing
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 02:42:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 02:42:00 1985
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>/* csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) /  8:40 am  Jul  1, 1985 */

>Your right. Too bad those Americans don't spend more time VOTING to
>change a foreign policy they'll admit sucks. A lot of people who voted
>for Reagan knew damn well his foreign policy sucked big time, but they
>didn't think it mattered.

The fact that Americans may vote for a candidate whose foreign policy they
feel is nonsensical (it is not clear that most Americans did feel this
way) does not necessarily indicate that they don't care about said policy.
It may merely mean that they feel him to be a better candidate overall
than the others.

>Do you speak a foreign language? Do you know what
>happens in Europe or the third world? Do you care? If the answer to any
>of these questions is "no" then you are an arrogant American. Why?
>
>Most Europeans learn English if not French and German too.
>Most Europeans follow all world events, not just their own country.
>All Europeans care about other countries.

The fact an American doesn't do what a European does doesn't make him/her 
arrogant.  If he/she doesn't do these things because of chauvinistic
feelings, then he/she is arrogant  --  he/she is arrogating to him/herself
a superiority that he/she doesn't possess.  If he/she doesn't because
he/she would rather do other things with his/her time then there is no
cause to call him/her arrogant.  He/she may be foolish, but not arrogant.

>Charles Forsythe

							Mike Sykora