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To: TobagoJack who wrote (24034)	10/13/2007 1:54:44 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218673

very interesting read jay. i had no idea.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (24034)	10/13/2007 3:59:18 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 218673

Jay, I don't read anything lengthy that's posted in italics. Hurts my eyes. Plus, unnecessary emphasis in typography is a sign of a disordered mind. If you want me to read something, post it in ordinary typeface, designed by experts for readability. And I don't blame living people for things their ancestors did. That's irrational. You seem very angry about something, but I can't really comprehend what it is. What is going on with you, that causes you to use so many angry words, and emphatic typography? Are you ok?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (24034)	10/13/2007 6:28:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218673

Excellent article TJ, because it fits with how I imagine things were and are. michaelparenti.org To avoid eye-strain with italics, one can click on that link to see the real thing. And even print it out for relaxed contemplation in 3D reality, sitting under a nice shady tree with a cup of tea at hand. Which is not to say that Mao's Megalomaniac Maelstrom should have been inflicted on Tibet. Mao's invasion looks somewhat like King George II's invasion of Iraq, but much more successful. Saddam was an absolute ruler thug, and that's how things were, everywhere, to a greater or lesser extent, in centuries gone by when women had more children than could be easily sustained in happy harmony within a country. Spare young males were put to work at the armed front, or jammed together as monks, or shipped north to build the Great Wall of China, or something, anything. They couldn't be left to loiter around the palace, wondering on the rites and wrongs of their lives and just who was inflicting what on whom and why. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (24034)	10/15/2007 2:53:23 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218673

T.O.A.F "The old Anglo foggy" In my expat life I found a certain group of people and I bundle them together under a certain label. The need to share a certain set of characteristic. T.O.A.F shares the following characteristics. They are baby boomers. Have adult children. White and Protestant. Life most of his profession in the pre-globalization era. Law abiding. Rule based. Most preeminent characteristic: Wants the “good old days” back. Averse to change. Against change. Hates change. Believe in the government of their countries. Badly disguised racists. Extraction: America, British, Canadian, Australian New Zealander. Give another type of people whom I bundled as a group: People who migrate to Thailand. They’ve been in the military, where long term expats in South East Asia and other countries. They can’t come back to their country, with their nanny laws and cold weather and decide to settle there. Independent. Embrace globalization. Few at easy with any foreigner. Not much rule based. Assaults the law here and there