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To: elmatador who wrote (50145)	5/18/2004 9:53:10 PM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 74559

<<...they speak the same language...>> Quite right, same language in math, sciences, plus Mandarin and English - all mandatory in most provinces. To be enhanced with Fengshui, French, Spanish, Hindi, sociology, psychology, etc. Where else can one a multilinguist college graduates as common workforce in car factory?

To: elmatador who wrote (50145)	5/19/2004 2:43:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Know how 1.3 billion think because they speak the same language> So how do you explain civil war elm? If all are thinking the same, then the linguistic clones would all shout sieg heil and goose-step in perfect synchronisation. But they don't. I find I have more in common with people who are not rugby, racing and beer NZers but who have similar backgrounds to me, whether they are from India, Japan or Colombia. Your theory is old-fashioned racism by another name elm. People are not prisoners of their language. People are individuals with individual minds. 1.3 billion Chinese do not think the same as each other. I watched silly Jiang Zemin riding around in a flash car, inspecting the troops, during China's 50th celebrations. He'd call "sieg" and the crowd would respond "heil", or words to that effect. It was hilarious. It looked as though it was straight out of a John Cleese or Monty Python episode. Another funny episode was in the Great Hall of the People or some such, with everyone sitting up straight, with blank faces, listening to the Great Leader, looking like Saddam's cabinet meeting where everyone kept their hands on the table, sitting up straight, both eyes on the Great Leader, and with fear in the air. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (50145)	5/19/2004 10:23:21 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 74559

oooops wrong board.. To:elmatador who wrote (11473) From: Spotted.Cat Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:21 PM Respond to of 11549 Can do the same with North Americans, Australians Canadians, and New Zealand. They are "flour of the same sack" because they speak the same language Apparently that type of conventional wisdom is being dispelled herein.. Language is only one bond... Like Islam is one bond of very few between Arabs and Iranians or Sunni and Shi'ite... chapters.indigo.ca. In Fire and Ice, Michael Adams challenges the myth of inevitability that has led us to believe our Canadian way of life is doomed to extinction. Drawing upon a decade of never-before released pulse-taking from both sides of the border, he reveals that Canada and the United States are not coming together, but are diverging in significant ways. From the vehicles we buy to the deference we pay to authority, Canadians prove to be firmly separate in their attitudes and opinions. If you have ever wondered whether Canada can survive and prosper as a distinct society in an era of globalization and dizzying technological change, Fire and Ice provides fascinating evidence that the cultural divergence between our country and the United States will continue for years to come.