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Pastimes : JFK Jr., Is this an assasination? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C Kahn who wrote (235)	8/5/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

Maybe those words should be taken literally: non-Americans don't have any idea how polite you are being to them ... and also be valid as reversed to maybe those Europeans really don't have an idea how arrogant they actually do sound to an American listener. I remember a scene from a youth camp I once was part of. A group of North-Germans met a group of Bavarians. It took several days until the ice was broken. The key issue was: both groups thought the other side was acting 'arrogantly'. It was merely two different styles of language, and nobody dared to explain the felt inferiority to anyone from the other group. Afterwards we laughed a lot about it. (To avoid misunderstanding by GJ: both groups may have contained ethnic Turks, Italians, ... I don't remember. But they should have been 'assimilate' enough to rely on German language, with the same idiomatic differences. At least I don't remember anything else but German spoken there.) Hope it will resolve like that, MNI.