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From: sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: chauvinism (was : Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?)
Summary: USA, flame
Message-ID: <368@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 22:18:38 GMT
References: <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10245@nsc.nsc.com> <7787@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Interface Systems at AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <7787@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
> [...]
> As to who the aliens would contact...well, where would the best place be?  I
> would vote for the United States, because (1) by almost any standard, we are 
> the most advanced nation on earth, [...]

I think you are lucky that usually postings to sci.space are restricted
to the USA, otherwise you would soon be buried in flames by a lot of 
Europeans and Japanese, and quite a few other nationalities too.
Canadians are probably too polite to even comment on your statement, :-),
but it really bugs me...

I can't believe that attitude, it usually goes hand-in-hand with
"the USA is the only real free country in the world", etc....
Contrary to popular opinion, people can (and do) say anything they like
(without resorting to libel and slander, of course) in quite a few other
countries around the world. 

I suppose any further discusions in this vein should be restricted
to sci.politics or whatever; I don't read those groups anyway. |-O
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