Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[Travis Newman]

> I think you forget about the people that didnt voted to anyone, which is 
> in the almost all democratic countries the biggest group of population. 
> So i guess if you check which porcentage of all the people who has USA 
> citizenship and voted Bush it will come down to a rather small number 
> ... maybe 15% (i am guessing, i know that last elections in USA had the 
> biggest number of votes ever)

I think 15% is way undershooting it, but I do agree. I just like getting 
all sides of a point across, and acknowledging them, when I'm in any 
kind of discussion, regardless of which side I'm taking, if any. I wish 
more people would actually vote, so that our leaders could truly reflect 
the opinions of the public.

> and then, when you say "americans" do you mean too people from canada, 
> brazil, mexico, nicaragua, uruguay, haiti etc...? America is a huge 
> continent, well you probably know that better than me i live on the 
> other side of the atlantic sea.

Yeah, we're all guilty of it. America is a huge continent (2 of them 
actually ;)) and it is very condescending toward all the other 
countries. It's just become a cultural standard. Citizens of Mexico are 
Mexicans, from Canada are Canadians, from the USA are Americans. It's 
not very fair at all.

> I didnt want to be rude or start any argument with this last point, i am 
> the first that says "americans" when talking about usa citizens but i 
> always try to be correct myself. I dont find it fair with the rest of 
> the "americans".

Again, I totally agree. I didn't think you were being rude at all