Whoa Andy!

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Thank you for your thoughtful post, Eric W. I must confess that sometimes you all from 
over there remind me too much of that exchange in Ulysses where the headmaster asks 
Stephen if he knows why England never had any problem with the jews.  It is good to see 
you speaking honestly about our shared historical oppresions.

john m
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>AS IF London didn't suffer from massive race obsessions and crazyness
>and stupidity! And no Englishman or Scotsman was ever a naive bourgeois!
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>I'm afraid we British are so very good at creating a box for ourselves called
>"America," and filling it with a lot of stuff we are afriad of in ourselves,
>stuff which is authentically our own, and then dismissing it as "other," 
> belonging to our "messed up American cousins." 
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>In the country I live in, race and cultural tensions replaced class (or
>formed a 
>complex nexus with it) some time ago as our greatest cultural concern. 
>In the pub or in the classroom, Race, personal and national identity are at
>the centre of the contemporary British debate.  
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>Eric Alan Weinstein
>Centre For English Studies
>University Of London
>E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk 
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