Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[CB]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:16 -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> Certainly we are NOT all the same.  There is an incredible amount of
> diversity of both race and opinion here.  My advice to those of you
> out
> there who "hate Americans" is --- don't blame us all for the actions
> of
> a few.  Whatever those people did to make you so angry at America, I
> can
> assure you that there are many people here who would totally agree
> with
> you that what they did is wrong and that we don't consider them to be
> representative of our own opinion or way of life.

This 'hate Americans' thing is kind of odd. I know a large number of
people who work in organisations working desperately to fight the
influence of the US corporatocracy and war machine, yet haven't yet met
anyone who claims to even dislike, let alone hate, Americans as such. On
the contrary, there are Americans amongst their number.

It's a pretty obvious distinction to make between a country's policies
and population, especially where so-called 'democracies' allow the
largest minority to have all the political power (and the richest to own
all the real power).