Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> If you were to drop the comment about this kind of attitude being >"American" - which seems unecessarily derogatory, and is not true, as some >Canadians and Brits seem to be pretty good at riding the same high horse >these days - I would agree with everything you say. Amen to the rest! > >Gary Toop You are quite right. My own vile prejudices are revealed in my remark. It might take some expalining. I am American, but I have inherited a unique disdain for many aspects of America from my mother who is a hard core ex pat American living currently in London. The one thing she fretted over when I moved back to the States was losing my English accent (or the trace of it that I had). She can't understand why I want to live here (neither can I at times). Having said that, there are many wonderful things about America, just as there are about every country. In fact, if you look at the earth from space, you will see no borders, so all these nationalistic prejudices are really ridiculous. For my part, I will try to consider myself a human (as Carl Sagan says), and an inhabitant of this small rock in the hostile emptiness of space. That way I will be ready for the time, in the not too distant future, when borders, like the Berlin wall, will come down everywhere. Thanks for your comment, Claude.