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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (3967)	4/16/1999 1:26:00 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<I think you made the point earlier about multi-ethnicity working here in the USA. It does to a certain extent when the economy is prosperous. It doesn't when races are pitted aginst each other in economic rivalry. Remember Sinclair's "The Jungle"?>> Dispelling this mindset is the first step. When people stop thinking of themselves and others as being demographics who have to as a race grab their share of the pie and start thinking of themselves as individuals with their own worth and merit, such conflict is moot. <<Foreign aid seems to be the lesser of two evils in this situation.>> As foreign aid has helped Russia? It has made things worse. That seems to be the trend. Give people the tools to help themselves, not a blankcheck for their elite to "help themselves." Despite the shortcomings of the EU, including Europe's just-below-the-surface racism, it has liberal democratic institutions from which to model and a hefty dose of economic incentive to behave. After all, inclusion in the largest economic bloc in the world next to North America is nothing to dismiss offhanded. I would argue that it is necessary for these people to be responsible for their own success or failure. Not only does handing out freebies not work, it makes the giving nation into a scapegoat for failure. Let's not get involved in any more situations where a people can later point their finger at us and accuse us of being responsible for their failure, because in our good intentions we chose to give away what should have been built. MHO.