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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: And now for a little US jingoism...
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Date: Sun, 13-May-84 13:22:13 EDT
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It is entirely possible that the same person who really was "low-class"
and unable to do well in Europe would become one of the heroic pioneers
who built the U.S.  Take a person and put them in an environment
where they are treated as low-class nobodies, and they will probably behave
as expected.  Put the same person in an environment where they are
challenged to do the best they can, and rewarded for doing so, and you
may find a very capable person.

An American friend has chastised me for my article of a few days ago
criticising some Americans as being particularly arrogant.  I'd like to
say that I recognize that there are clearly a lot of very reasonable
people inhabiting the U.S. as well.  (It is interesting to note that
some of the examples of arrogance that stand out most clearly in my
mind come from USENET articles.)  Perhaps there are relatively few
of the "save the world from communism", "my country right or wrong"
unthinking patriots out there, and I just notice them more because
they irritate me so much.

None of this seems to belong in net.women, does it?

	Dave Martindale