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From: gennaro@athena.mit.edu (Rosario Gennaro)
Newsgroups: trial.soc.culture.italian
Subject: Re:  Trial group status
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Date: 13 May 91 23:05:55 GMT
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In article <1991May13.203816.6482@agate.berkeley.edu> marchi@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Massimo Marchi) writes:

>I would hope that you were smart enough to expect reactions such as
>mine in initiating a newsgroup to discuss opera and pasta dishes (those
>were the first two items in your list of reasons). Would you be upset
>if I started a neswgroup called soc.culture.british_black-pudding or
>soc.culture.british-royal or soc.culture.british-hygiene? How would you
>like to be patronized by somebody who uses a lot of stereotypical views
>of your country? I am very tired of people like you who think they have
>the right to put their mouth where it doesn't belong.
>
>Massimo

It's easy to fall in stereotypical views of our country when people like you
keep on posting, Massimo. Literally from a previous posting of yours:
"In the USA there is no Italian culture, you even forgot how to cook".
Right! Gone the pasta what else remains?

Rosario

p.s. I am tired of people who think they have the right to decide where
     other people's mouth belongs.