Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: appleiigs Message-ID: <16226@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 22 May 91 01:39:28 GMT References: <9105210928.AA08028@apple.com> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 17 In article <9105210928.AA08028@apple.com> I409@DMAFHT1.BITNET (KRS) writes: >...another lesson by KRS on the narrow-minded-US-so-called-World- >conciousness-yeah, right: GODs-own-country-mentality... Look, you guys, just because a few fools are ignorant does NOT prove anything whatever about national characteristics. Or would you want to say that the posting in Dutch was indicative of a Dutch tendency to excessive nationalist zeal? My opinion is that such a tendency MIGHT have applied to the poster, who as it turned out did not have the excuse of not being able to communicate adequately in English. Whether or not another Dutchman would have been so silly would depend entirely on the individual involved, just as whether or not Americans understood the message or even recognized the language depended entirely on the individuals. Please help stamp out racism, sexism, etc. by refraining from lumping people into ethnic categories.