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To: HG who wrote (4103)	10/10/2001 3:13:56 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh, please. I wouldn't lump all people in Dubai or Kashmir together in terms of what they're "like," what hurts them or makes them happy any more than I would paint a single picture to represent all the people from any other country. And I won't hold against you the fact that your own possibly narrow and parochial understandings and beliefs might be shaped by the countries you lived in any more than you should hold them against me. As you can tell from this bb alone, Americans hold a wide variety of views and beliefs about nearly every subject imaginable. You don't have a problem with that, do you? BTW, in response to your inquiry, I grew up in a fairly cosmopolitan suburb northwest of Washington DC, have enjoyed extensive personal and professional contact with people of nearly every nationality since childhood, and since then have clients of a number of nationalities, including among others American, Chinese, Greek, Indian, Iranian, Israeli, and Italian, and studied developmental and east/west politics and economics, including some graduate level Middle East political studies from a professor who assisted in drafting Pakistan's constitution. Nothing as mind-enriching as living in Dubai or Kashmir. Never lived in Monaco, either. Hey, WTFDIK, especially compared to somebody like you who apparently knows it all?