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To: BubbaFred who wrote (41806)	11/25/2001 12:41:52 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Bubba, in all fairness, I don't think there is a country on earth who wouldn't have incidents like that happen after being attacked by a similar nations ethnicity. The remarkable thing to note is how few of those kind of incidents are taking place in America today. Yesterday, I was in Seattle walking about the museums. And was glad to see Middle Eastern men and women walking about, talking, laughing, and enjoying themselves. The mainstream press likes to find the ugly side of our culture, while ignoring the decent side. It sells more papers I suppose. Not that we should make light of these incidents, just meant to give them a bit of perspective. By the way, thanks for the recent articles. Good to see the retailing industry is looking ok.

To: BubbaFred who wrote (41806)	11/25/2001 2:39:34 PM
From: Da Cat in Da Hat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Not personal, but if you want to get the attention of Americans that you consider to be illiterate then you should be careful how you compose your message. For example, <watch out for isolated red neck countries.> probably should be areas, not countries. <not possible to exclude all the unwordly and illiterate Americans.> Unworldly, not unwordly. <not meaningful or unthoughtful or basically unconcious?> unconscious Several places needed a conjunctive verb; "the" should have been used often instead of the stream of consciousness jump; run-on sentences could have been broken up, and so on. It's marginally presumptive to call people illiterate because they do not speak more than one language if you have a problem composing your thoughts in acceptably correct American English.