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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: new yuch vs. TORONTO
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 02:30:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 02:30:07 1985
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> 
> The state department had no business apologizing to Canada for
> the incident in New York. It was not a U.S. issue(in my opinion).
> It was a private issue in which the Yankee organization, i.e. Mr.
> Stienbrenner himself, was responsible for apologizing to the people
> of Canada. Since Georgie did not take ant reconciliatory action,
> I can only assume that he approved of the incident.
> 
> Roy 

In an anthropology course I took in college, I learned how children are
taught responsibility in Japan.  Imagine that a child breaks a window,
but doesn't approach the owner of the property and offer to repair it.
The way this is usually handled in the U.S. is for one of the parents to
take the child by the hand, lead him or her to the wronged party, and make the
child apologize and offer to fix the window.

In Japan, the mother would approach the wronged party and apologize for being
an unfit and unworthy parent who has raised an irresponsible child.  Of course,
the child knows about this humiliation of the mother.

Maybe it's not the state department's business to apologize for the Yankees
and their fans, but I hope it shames them into better behavior.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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