XPost: alt.religion.kibology, alt.webtrance, alt.slack   
   From: kali.magdalene@comcast.net   
      
   clansdell@nf.sympatico.ca wrote:   
   >   
   > "Julie d'Aubigny"  wrote in message   
   > news:3FF8F86F.B08BB233@comcast.net...   
   > > clansdell@nf.sympatico.ca wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > Is that what this is? I thought it was source material for standup   
   > routines.   
   > > > And witty observations on daily occurences. I would wager that the   
   > average   
   > > > IQ on this group rivals a Mensa meeting.   
   > >   
   > > The problem is that Schwann is seemingly unable to grasp the concept of   
   > > "frivolity for its own sake."   
   > >   
   > I'm having a little frivolity RIGHT NOW IYKWIM, AITYD   
      
      
      
   > Hell, I only know one   
   > > > person for sure is from the US here and frankly, I could care less!!!   
   > >   
   > > I know at least a half-dozen.   
   > >   
   > > Maybe all of us.   
   > >   
   > > Maybe we're all Beable's sock puppets, who is in turn Kevin's.   
   > >   
   > So many things wrong with that statement.   
   > Individual Americans I like fine, but as a nation they do tend to arrogance.   
   > I am not American, I am Anglo-African-Caribbean-Canuck.   
      
   What bothers me about assertions like this is that it becomes a useless   
   generalization. Often online, for example, I see a European,   
   Canuckistanian, or Austrian start running off at the mouth about how   
   horrible all Americans are, along with some pretty arrogant statements   
   that imply their own superiority over Americans. When Americans respond   
   rather predictably to this kind of commentary, then it becomes all about   
   American nationalism and how evil it is. In short, it seems that what   
   many see as arrogance is actually a certain defensiveness.   
      
   I guess I'll actually take comments about American arrogance seriously   
   when I stop seeing condescending (and usually inaccurate) remarks about   
   Americans from the aforementioned nationalities.   
      
   This doesn't mean that Americans are flawless, it just strikes me that   
   the commentary *about* Americans is pretty one-sided and heavily   
   informed by what the speaker wants the truth to be.   
      
   > And Beable is not putting his hand up my butt.   
      
   He doesn't have to. It's all done electronically. With satellites.   
      
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