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To: arun gera who wrote (25288)	11/15/2007 8:10:09 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 217769

Lots of data points on this board. China, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, India . . . .

To: arun gera who wrote (25288)	11/15/2007 9:50:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217769

Arun, I have lived in a few countries and have visited about 30. The idea that one has to be a sheep or live in their paddock to understand them always amuses me. It's an argument made by people who don't have an argument and a way of denigrating other people. I have never been to Peru or Pakistan, but I can know a LOT about them without going there or being one. I have never been a woman but I can know a lot about them. Of course it helps to go to a place to get unfiltered information and get a seamless holistic point of view, but it's not a requirement for knowing things. Pictures and words are representations of reality rather than 3D up close and personal actual experience. But they are still good approximations. Government bureaucrats are always going on overseas junket "study tours" and they invariably come back with really dopey ideas, aping something they have seen, or think they saw, in foreign lands. They adopt monkey see, monkey do methods, rather than using thinking, which can be done in situ. Mqurice