Community response of new ubuntu artwork

[Robert Brimhall]

That makes sense. I agree that people tend to "defend" other cultures
rather than let the cultures defend themselves. Sorry I got
defensive... it's just been one of those days as an irrate American!
;) Cheers!

Robert


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:38:09 -0500, Poldi <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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> [quote:f9f5cfe68e="rbrimhall"][quote:f9f5cfe68e]- apart from this, those 'different culture'-people that some think they need to defend can surely speak for themselves. I am suprised to see Americans defend Irani moral here and use middle eastern culture as an argument for their own interests. [/quote:f9f5cfe68e]
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> Way off-topic here but I just had to say that as an American I find this statement offensive. You seem to be implying (to me anyways since there is no other context for me to go on) that all Americans (can we say generalization?) are hypocrites by defending "Irani" moral and then "use middle eastern culture as an argument for their own interests" (I can only assume here that you are talking about either America's foreign policy practices in the Middle-East or the current War). I hope you realize that not all Americans believe in or support our governments decisions in the International arena. I just hate being lumped into what seems to be a common trend internationally into the typical "American."[/quote:f9f5cfe68e]
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> I am very sorry. my statement has been misinterpreted. I am not referring to 'all Americans' but to the ones specificly in this thread that did take the position I was describing. I do not generalize at all. further I did not mean to present any statement on American foreign politics, but meant the second part of my statement that you quoted only in context of this topic, namely Ubuntu.
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> I have no interest to discuss anything offtopic on this board. what caught my interest were several people that posted in this thread along the lines of "I am American and I am offended by this artwork - and just imaging how bad this must offend people in Iran/whatever..." - this is what I meant with 'as an argument for their own interests'.
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> sorry for not being clear.
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> peace, please. I am not saying the above applies to all/only American or was typical for especially them, not do I count you in to any generalized group. I only wanted to criticise a IMHO faulty logic that was presented here before.
> 
> kind regards,
> Carsten
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