Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!nsc!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: new yuch vs. TORONTO Message-ID: <670@rtech.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 02:30:07 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.670 Posted: Tue Oct 1 02:30:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 04:43:52 EDT References: <347@zaphod.UUCP> <4500054@hpmtla.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 29 > > 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..." {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff