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   From: trminlxGARBAGE@bitstreamnet.com   
      
   In article <5de95582.0309121630.1bd1c1e4@posting.google.com>,   
    stalepie@comcast.net (Matthew Dickinson) wrote:   
      
   > ded-T  wrote in message   
   > news:...   
   > > On 12 Sep 2003 09:20:45 GMT, Omixochitl    
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > > >Sounds like he's from the "cultural exchange is cultural genocide!!!"   
   > > >crowd.   
   > >   
   > > if you've read the earlier part of this thread you'll realize that   
   > > Georgia, USA is not known for "openness" in regards to 'cultural   
   > > exchange' or cultural acceptance.   
   > >   
   > > >You know, the whole "don't mention any non-X custom within earshot of   
   > > >someone from culture X, lest he replace an X custom with the non-X   
   > > >custom!!! oh, and make sure you do nothing but suck up to whichever X   
   > > >dictator kicks around the X lower classes while you're at it, because   
   > > >being kicked around by X leaders is part of their culture and you're   
   > > >oppressing them if you don't like it" attitude.   
   > >   
   > > Read the history of the South for the last 300 years. 'Nuff said.   
   > >   
   > > >They're especially not thrilled about the internet and other mass media,   
   > > >because someone might see people like me on it and realize "hey, she   
   > > >knows how to read and she's not a prostitute! maybe I don't have to keep   
   > > >my daughter out of elementary school after all, even if Grandpa kept Mom   
   > > >out of school because he thought literacy would make her a prostitute."   
   > >   
   > > The fear is that "your culture" will over write "their culture". That   
   > > "your morals" will subvert "their morals", that "your truth" will   
   > > prove "their truth" is false. At which point "they" will cease to be.   
   > >   
   > > The USA tends to promote sexual / cultural / political / religious   
   > > diversity as long as it does not interfere with the status quo: white   
   > > male heterosexual republican christians.   
   > >   
   > > btw in some ancient cultures the only women that were permitted to be   
   > > "educated" were 'courtesans'... hence the fears were translated over   
   > > time to "reading = whoredom".   
   > >   
   > > the ded 1   
   >   
   > If my identity is bound only by my location, "ded 1," then I will   
   > indeed leave. But then why don't you both tell me about yourselves.   
   > What is this privileged location you two were born in? I suspect   
   > though that you are too cowardly even to mention your real names, or   
   > your location. There could be "hackers," right "ghost," that will   
   > invade your cyberspace and embarrass your online-only friends.   
      
   you obviously had read my website at one point as you managed to place   
   my eye color in the subject line .. so you know for a fact I have my   
   real name online in at least one place.   
      
   > I suspect you've never been "down south," into Georgia, say. I suspect   
   > that. But I do not care, you see. I would not care what you are beyond   
   > idle interest. So tell me about yourselves. What do you look like?   
   > Your age? Where comes this pansy hostility of yours? Your insults are   
   > lame and boring. You can do better than that.   
      
   I have in fact been in the South, every state except LA (the one   
   opportunity I had was a Mardi Gras and the car broke down in KS) and FL.   
   Spent several weeks on Hilton Head Is., SC (nice place, fucking hot in   
   July). as for GA, while I have been to the state it was only a four   
   night stay in Atlanta which is a beautiful city and I suggest to anyone   
   who hasn't been there to go.   
      
   Though, most of my trips to the South involved seeing various Civil War   
   sites of interest and other historical points. I was born in New England   
   and have lived throughout much of the west and midwest. And since we're   
   on the topic of where people have been I've spent at least two   
   continuous nights in 32 of the 50 states trying to see as much of the US   
   as possible. We've got some really cool shit out there (though the drive   
   along I-70 from Salt Lake to Reno is boring only to be topped by the   
   drive from Denver to Kansas City.   
      
   That help at all? Your identity is not bound by your location. But at   
   least we see the online community as a method of expanding our cultural   
   views and experiences a little to enrich our own lives.   
      
   > Can't ya.   
      
   mostly you're just beneath me and not worth the effort of insulting at   
   this point.   
      
   ghost   
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