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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Horses in streets
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 10:20:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 10:20:12 1986
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>>When I came to USA, about three years back, one of the americans
>>asked me, whether there are still horses used for travel on the roads in
>>Bombay and other cities!!!
>
><FLAME ON>
>
>Really? HORSES? Jesus Christ!! Did someone really ask you
>that?! I can't believe how ignorant
>some people can be! 

Relax.  I am from Nebraska.  About 80% of the people I've met who were born and
still live in the eastern part of the US will say something to me indicating
that they think we have horses in our main streets (what there are of
them--they seem to think that our cities look like a set for "High Noon"). 
And they think everyone wears cowboy hats and chaps, and that the calvalry 
is still battling the Native Americans in the canyons.

If someone has never been to a place, and knows it only from the movies,
what else are they to think?  The best policy, I've found, is to educate
them gently and politely.
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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