To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (77467 ) 8/9/2011 9:56:25 AM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217769 Jacob do your really think ElM is going to start cutting off hands in Angola? <Staying out of Africa is an advantage; every foreigner who goes to Africa, ends up chopping the hands off Africans who don't fulfill their rubber-gathering quota, (like the Belgians did in the Congo), or polluting their souls by doing some other atrocity in the name of progress. > Or is he going to be a polluter of souls? ElM, which is your preference? Have you done either so far? How about Huawei and Ping? <The Chinese will be corrupted if they colonize Africa, whether the colonization is explicit (political/military), or indirect (acting thru paid proxies, and economic control). > Anyway Jacob, you have confused your tenses as it's a bit late for "will be". They "have been". The "global culture" attitude was the Euro attitude too against which I used to argue. [In regard to the oil industry with the Euro politicians wanting a single standard for diesel. I explained to them why that was a bad idea]. <There is an emerging Global Culture. It won't be Anglo, and it won't be Brazilian or Chinese either. It will be something new, a chimera with borrowed parts of all the cultures it replaces. It will be created by your grandchildren and mine and Jay's, and neither you nor I nor he will understand it. > In fact people are not globally homogeneous with fungible cultural requirements everywhere. That's the human as mere clone mindset espoused by TJ and the Made in China clonists. Even within such a local scene as London there are wide cultural variations. I'm gazing out on a lovely street scene in London right now with no riots in sight and none in prospect. London has not yet become a homogenous culture. That does not tend to be how people work. Local things affect them locally. Cultural norms adapt to local circumstances. Mqurice