Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call For Discussion about creating soc.culture.asean Message-ID: <455@icdi10.UUCP> Date: 16 Oct 89 01:08:24 GMT References: <9895@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <8910121943.AA29942@ix2.cc.utexas.edu> Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) Organization: normally @ Compudata Inc. Phila PA Lines: 38 In article <8910121943.AA29942@ix2.cc.utexas.edu> hac@ix1.cc.utexas.edu (Alejandro A Hu-Quixote) writes: -> ->low@unc.cs.unc.edu (Kah-Chan Low) in article <9895@thorin.cs.unc.edu>: ->>> The result is, presently, there are vast cultural and socio-economic ->>> differences between the ASEAN countries and Indochina countries. -> ->khai@babar.uucp (S. Khai Mong) in article : ->>To the credit of the *people* of the ASEAN countries. This has not much ->>to do with colonial heritage. If it weren't for despotic rulers, I am -> ->Kah-Chan Low: ->>> Most importantly, we (the people from the 6 countries) do not perceive ->>> the Indochina countries as "on the same boat" as ours. -> ->S. Khai Mong: ->>Oh yeah? Stinks of elitism. And I have the opinion that this is what all ->>pro-s.c.asean people are advocating. ``We don't want to have anything Oh, this is fun. I really think we should all have our own group. That way we could talk to ourselves all day and no one would argue. Now that we have a handful of messages in *.*.[korea,taiwan,hongkong] we still need singapore and tailand. Then after asean we'll need one for the four dragons as a group. Then we'll jump to the EEC and NATO and pretty soon soon we'll petition the UN for it's own group too. Pretty soon we'll be back to talk.politics.misc which always has been a rather interesting group to listen to anyway. One can at least get the status of world affairs from all kinds of angles. I don't even bother voting no anymore. fred rump -- This is my house. My castle will get started right after I finish with news. 26 Warren St. uucp: ...{bpa dsinc uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fr Beverly, NJ 08010 domain: fred@cdin-1.uu.net or icdi10!fr@cdin-1.uu.net 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - Schiller