Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

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Why do you think many Americans consider protesting a bad thing? It
seems to be almost encouraged in my school in Manhattan...


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:20:30 -0500, Giovanni Sce <giova at digitalright.org> wrote:
> 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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