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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (90512)	4/6/2003 1:51:59 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The problem with what you are trying to argue is that you are conflating very many different issues, phenomenon, and a fair share of anti-corporatism and anti-globalism into an incomprehensible blob. Cultures are not static. Tokyo is no less "Japanese" for the abundance of cars and glass skyscrapers, and a lack of shoji houses. You've been trying to argue that there is something specifically "American" about technologies like cars or soft drinks which we, in our bottomless vileness, have been forcing upon the world through our corporations, at the point of the gun if necessary. The unsuspecting world, having no will of its own to resist the irresistable marketing droids, is being whitewashed (pun intended) into an interminable gray "American" blob. Absolute hogwash. And not merely a tiny bit paranoid delusions. Derek