Re: American like Sam Shepard ( was guns and stuff)

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Fri, 14 May 1999 00:45:44 -0700 (PDT)

Do you know why stereotypes distress us so?  Because appearance is truth.

Thor

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> >Irony Alert.
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> >Robert, obviously I can appreciate your concerns. Half my time on this 
>list
> >seems to be dedicated to trying to crush Australian stereotypes. Did you
> >ever see the documentary Blue Eyed, about the woman who teaches people
> >about racism by dividing up people into blue and brown eyed groups, one
> >inferior, one superior, to show how ingrained our prejudices are? This is
> >the sort of thing I was trying to touch on. I was trying to show by 
>example
> >how hurtful it is to be regarded stereotypically. Fire with fire if you
> >like, or as my Mum puts it, `sinking down to their level'. I'm sorry if 
>you
> >took it literally, but again:
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>      I'll say that this is you copping out.  As I said previously, there
>have been numerous times that I have bitten my tongue over your comments
>concerning America. This is a subject that boggles my mind, how the rest of
>the world seems to think they have a much better handle on what goes on in
>American society, than we do. I meet students form all over the world ( I
>live in Boston, we're overrun by them) who tell me all that I don't know
>about my own country. The problem is,  they are usually basing their
>observations on sitcoms and bad propaganda. I couldn't even imagine voicing
>an opinion about  Austrailian society. Why is that the rest of the world is
>so prepared to tell me about Americans? ( and I tend to think that 
>Canadians
>may be the worst of them all at this)
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>    When you pull this on a lot of Americans these days, they'll probably
>agree with you, because we are losing our soul as a country. It's like 
>folks
>are guilty to be American. (But I think these people would be soulless
>wherever they live. ) What you have run into here is someone who is
>unfashionably proud to be American. I'm no right winger either, if you are
>of the mind to believe that belief in our country is the sole domain of
>Conservatives.
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>         I'm just tired of this US bashing and the many forms it takes on.
>The fact that you are making your judgements here based on Friends and the
>Simpsons should be startling, apparently it's not.
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>                    Robert Morris
>                    winboog@gis.net
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