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To: ig who wrote (24626)	10/27/2002 12:44:10 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 74559

< Thanks to exchanges on the Net such as the very one we are enjoying here, the ordinary folks here (such as Yours Truly) are being made to see ourselves as others see us. We are being forced to see certain truths about ourselves. < Such a wonderful thing... hopefully the other 95% of people get away from the TV and exchange ideas such... for as many sages have noted: "It is the 'ordinary people' who have perpetrated all the great crimes against humanity... not the strange outlaw criminal faction... and still do." DAK

To: ig who wrote (24626)	10/27/2002 3:09:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

IG, It's a small world after all. People are about identity and identity is a rapidly shifting and fluid thing in the modern world. We all struggle with it [or should do if we understand what's going on]. Some of us are a melange of troppo Trinidadian Tobagan with Russian tendencies, Jewish cousins and Hakka/Shanghaian Cablinasian contamination brought up in a mixture of transition and confusion. Then there are those of us with a seriously complex background<g>; trying to create order and security in a disorderly world. It certainly is interesting times in which we live. So what's new one might ask? Don't get too defensive. The truth about Americans is generally quite nice. Luckily so too! Imagine if Saddam was top dog or Osama or Omar or Stalin or Mao or any number of nightmares who have tried to be King Kong. They [Americans] shouldn't apply for sainthood just yet though. But neither should most people. I can't think of anyone offhand who should [though Uncle Al KBE has already achieved sainthood]. Americans make it to the headlines because they are Numero Uno so we all need to keep a close eye on them. Nobody worries too much about Fiji, or New Zealand, or France, or Japan, because they are all relatively insignificant and unlikely to trample one accidentally or in a moment of grumpiness. Brazilians get to the headlines if they murder somebody famous like Peter Blake, confirming their barbarous nature, but otherwise we don't care too much what they get up to down there in the Amazonian jungle. If the world took a vote to decide whether Brazil or the USA should be hegemonist, I don't think Brazil would get a lot of votes. Mqurice