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From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Alienation
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 19:12:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 19:12:08 1985
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I read, with some fascination, Ravi's article describing the three stages
of (what I might call) depatriation. As an Englishman who has been here
for a little over one year I recognised exactly the same drift of attitude
in myself, though I have not, and will never, reach stage III.

I am appalled and irritated by the smug parochialism of American media
attitudes. And I am frightened also. A nation as powerful as this, with
so condescending an attitude to the rest of the world, appears to be
very dangerous; like a wanton child that is posessed of unnatural strength.
The frustration is there, too. What can be done to educate the child?

Perhaps, soon, I will just go home so that I need not observe this
any more. (But then, it won't go away, will it?)

Charles Lambert
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, IL.