Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!IX1.CC.UTEXAS.EDU!hac From: hac@IX1.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Alejandro A Hu-Quixote) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Sao Khai Mong insulted all soc.culture groups Summary: Who is brain damaged, after all? Message-ID: <8910281609.AA02730@ix2.cc.utexas.edu> Date: 28 Oct 89 16:09:44 GMT References: <128@qt.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: hac@ix1.cc.utexas.edu (Alejandro A Hu-Quixote) Organization: University of Texas at Austin Lines: 36 In article khai@amara.uucp (S. Khai Mong) writes: >Upset may be be the right word, but not because of not being invited >to the party. So tell us why you are upset. If other people want to set up a group for themselves, why are you upset? > If it is going to be soc.culture, I would find it hard >to discuss many comparative cultural aspects without referring to >neighboring non-ASEAN nations. Do you know, if this argument is applied recursively, then you end up needing only one soc.culture.world? >Somebody claimed that ASEAN is unlike any other organization save the >EEC. Then why hasn't soc.culture.eec been created so far despite >the fact that there are a lot more EEC users on the net that Asean users? > >Answer: Because it is such a dumb, stupid and brain-damaged idea. This is a fallacy! You insulted all soc.culture newsgroups. Let me analyze your logic: there are a lot more American users than Arabic users on the net. There is soc.culture.arabic but no soc.culture. american. So soc.culture.arabic is a dumb, stupid and brain-damaged idea. There are a lot more Canadian than Turkish users, there is no soc.culture.canadian but there is soc.culture.turkish, so soc. culture.turkish is also a dumb, stupid and brain-damaged idea. This argument can be applied to all existing soc.culture groups. I also want to point out that because there are not so many ASEAN users, it will be wiser to set up a collective newsgroup than six individual newsgroups, one for each nation. -- Alex Hu for a liberal and unbiased news.groups