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To: LindyBill who wrote (14882)	12/27/2001 7:17:19 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What is human "race" thing?? Something from centuries long time gone by?? Ilmarinen I was more impressed with other things in the Grapes of Wrath, although russia is just around the corner. Stuff like land reforms, drought and floods and share cropping. (but they were also common in russia at that time, really bad at the end of the 1800s and with that inland climate, the draughts and sometimes floods are still pretty bad, even in Ukrain)

To: LindyBill who wrote (14882)	12/28/2001 5:33:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<The ideas that have to be transmitted are the ones from the enlightenment that this country was founded on. You know, "Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness." Individual freedom. > Oh, you mean those olde English ideas which the USA recently picked up. Not that cultural stuff which we aren't allowed to mention but which is a big export. It took the USA a while to ditch slavery and segregation and it retained quite an antipathy to certain sexual proclivity until recent decades [and even now - enquire whether Jesus Christ might have been homosexual and see people go all weird; personally, I think homosexuality is weird, but I think there is so much weird in the world, I can't get too worked up about victimless weirdness]. This country [after becoming part of the British Empire] was founded on the same ideas and never did have the slavery and stuff, though we are trying to develop apartheid now. It's difficult, but we're working on it. One of the problems is that males and females keep on mixing up the DNA. Maintaining racial purity is a very big problem. Just because Hitler, South Africa and the USA couldn't make racist laws work doesn't mean we shouldn't have a go at it. Personally, I think it's weirdness to try, but they don't ask me. From Middle Earth, Mqurice