Re: Matt and Co.

[phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker)]

In article <bazyarCo6pvr.CxK@netcom.com>, bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
> DO11@calvacom.fr (Dominique OTTELLO) writes:
> 
>>I request that people who wish to discuss another things than Apple 2, Apple
>>��, Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIe+, Apple //c, Apple //c+, Apple IIGS ROM
>>01, Apple IIGS ROM 03 go to another appropriate news group.
> 
>>You, the great heros of civil rights ?
>>     the champions of liberty ?
>>     the knight-errants ?
> 
>>     don't make me laugh!
> 
>   Hey, we're not perfect, but must I remind you that at the time the US
> had established Liberty and the first free nation on earth, that the
> French were killing for a madman named Napoleon? Would you care to 
> tell me why that was?

	The first free nation with the exception of a certain group that
were slaves?

>   Has anyone ever wondered why the world reviles and ridicules America
> so much?

	Or why Americans revile and ridicule other nations?  Which tends to
be more noticeable on the Internet as there are more participants from the
USA than elsewhere. On the whole the proportions who indulge in such
behaviour are probably about the same in most nations, though I would
suspect that the proportion in nations other than the USA who attack the US
is probably higher than the proportion in the US who attack any given other
nation.

	For what it is worth I suspect that a major reason for such
behaviour towards the USA is the usual response to dominant nations. 
Throughout history people tend to more either love or hate dominant
nations, that is they arouse more polarised emotions.  You just have to
look at the tendency to attack the British in the early part of this
century when they were still perceived as a major power.

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Stephen Harker			was phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
ex Monash University		now sjh@phadfa.ph.adfa.edu.au
now ADFA (Canberra)		Baloney baffles brains: Eric Frank Russell