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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (131814)	5/6/2004 2:30:15 PM
From: el_gaviero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thank you, Hawkmoon, for a thoughtful and temperate post. It seems to me that in the study of history, we have to choose a point of view, and we might as well choose the point of view of who we are. I have lived in South America, and I have in-laws who are from there and don't even speak English, the lengua franca of our times. I could write S. American history,(maybe, assuming I could) but I would still be writing from the point of view of an American, and not just an American but an American with roots in the South. We can't escape who we are. All the people who claim to be for "diversity" and so forth don't realize that all they are doing is repeating the current morality of their tribe. In other words, to deny your roots is now part of the "roots" of Euro peoples. All very strange. But I can tell you this, once freed from the burden of having to adopt a point of view that compulsively insists upon taking into account the point of view of other peoples, a tremendous liberation of energy takes place.