Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: America-bashing Message-ID: <1340253@acf4.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 02:42:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340253 Posted: Wed Jul 3 02:42:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:18:13 EDT References: <3140@drutx.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 31 >/* 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