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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (232968)	5/16/2005 1:47:56 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577945

It rightly highlights the fact that, overall, the US is a much more conservative and religious/puritan society than Europe. Another difference between Europe and the US is the way people express their bigotry, racism and other reactionary feelings.... As I once put it, in the US, far-right shibboleths make up a lifestyle, a way of life, not a mere private, somewhat repressed set of beliefs. I guess that's why a murderous crank like fugitive Eric Rudolph got enough help from like-minded people to escape the FBI for so long.... In Europe, we also have (Catholic) fundamentalists who strongly oppose abortion, yet I've never heard about a terrorist bombing of an "abortion clinic" in Europe... The same freaks are also strong opponents of euthanasia: a couple of years ago there was a very emotional case that made the headlines in France and beyond(). Somehow, the Vincent Humbert case was the French prequel to your Mary Schiavo affair... Well, the difference was that, in France, the police didn't have to arrest a "pro-life" fanatic who offered $250,000 for the murder of the persons responsible of Humbert's (voluntary) death....(*) Yup. I think extremism is in the American genes. Europe got rid of its extremists by exporting them to the New World. But unlike Canada and Australia, we then built on those genes and made them more than what they are. ted