Re: dumbing down

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Varsoke:
> This brings me to something i've been discussing with my Croatian
>girlfriend and my German tutor.  We've been talking about national
>identities -- the idiosyncracies of identities.  For example the 20-30
>something Germans seem to still hold on to their cultural supremacy,
>their perfection, punctuality, great engineering etc, but it's tempered
>by guilt of WWII.  The English seem to be bent out of shape that they are
>now a second rate country after losing all of their empire.  The Croations
>have an inferiority complex about being about the size of Rhode Island
>(something we americans find it hard to remember is actually a state) or
>the population of L.A. and having a hard time being recognized as an
>independent nation by the UN.


    Sickening and disheartening.   This kind of thing always pisses me off
more than any of the other Carl Luces there are on this list.  -jared

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