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To: KLP who wrote (221054)	9/24/2007 1:49:04 PM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793727

I don't know the guys politics, and I don't think he was saying it's a repub/dem thing, more an America/a lot of the rest of the world thing. My brother went to Switzerland at some point and he observed that there wasn't a single rock out of place in the whole country. I've heard North Korea does a good job of controlling behavior. Comparatively, we are chaos run riot. The guy wasn't writing his doctoral thesis on the effects of puritanism, just putting his observations out there for people who might want to retire to a more 'laid back' environment. I pretty much apply the 'take what you want and leave the rest' attitude to stuff like this. We know a couple, she's from Spain and he's from Germany, philosophy professors at Northwestern. Their kids and Jon are friends and we see them over at the 'pooch park' a fair amount. Every summer they go back to Europe to visit family and friends. Anyway, just before they left we ended up shooting the sh*t for a few hours while the kids played and they expressed how happy they were to be leaving for a few months. It wasn't that they didn't like it here, the way she expressed it was that the people of every country have behaviors (blind spots about themselves is the way she put it) that outsiders can see easily and that they find bizarre. She quickly observed that the same was true of the people in her country, but that she was more comfortable with those idiosyncrasies since they came 'naturally' to her. She was polite enough not to get into specifics (in her opinion) and I didn't ask. ARS