Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[Giovanni Sce]

I thought we shouldn't talk about politics and similar
on this list, but... luckly... I guess we are all interested
in the subject, so, I'll throw in my observations too.

I thought too Americans in general were not responsable of
the nasty actions of their governemts (infact the current one
is not the only bad one).
... but... I changed my mind (both opinions formed while living
in US).

Americans elect their government as well as their representatives
in the congress (and we saw who the elected in the last elections,
and we saw how representatives standed about Gore-Bush recount in
2000 and on Iraq invasion case).

In NYC (one of the few "politic" cities of this country) I have been
protesting in the streets many times together with just 200
brave souls about Iraq invasion, Repubblican Convention and last
election. In my opinion (old european school) this is not "doing
politic" (and infact many Americans consider that a bad thing,
therefore better to let it to media and oil corporations).

And last, the corporations' globalization may be something some
Americans don't agree on, but, the American life-style wouldn't
exist otherwise.

Ciao,

Gio

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Quoting Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>:

> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:49 -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
> >
> > > Even if a majority of Americans are narrow-minded people, that does
> > > not mean there's some given right to speak offensively about them, or
> > > rather us (Not sure whether I consider myself American. Haven't spent
> > > enough time here to make such a decision.)
> >
> > Agreed, and again, the ip address comment I don't think was meant to say
> > that all Americans are the same.
>
> 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.
>
>
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