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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: I have here..
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.015140.17483@eff.org>
Date: 19 Nov 90 01:51:40 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.132119.12280@eff.org> <9Ryss4w163w@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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In article <9Ryss4w163w@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>
>I think a lot of people on the net still don't quite realise that this
>is an *international* network.  Ethnocentricism seems to be a
>perennial problem in the United States.

I think you missed the point. No one is surprised that Canadians,
Britons, or Australians, or any non-U.S. citizens didn't catch
the reference, Curt.

What's surprising is that some people who were educated in the
United States missed the reference. Kind of like being raised in
Ireland and not knowing what Parnell stood for.

>I'm not surprised that most, if not all, of you who live in the U.S.
>and are reading this don't know about the FLQ.  Why should you be
>surprised that I don't know details about McCarthy's speeches?

I'm not surprised that you, or any other Canadian, do not catch
a McCarthy parody.

Again, the odd thing is the U.S. citizens who didn't catch it.



--Mike, who suspects that even more of the U.S. citizens reading
        this thread didn't catch John Locke's reference either.




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