Whoa Andy!
Joseph Cerrato
100443.1223 at CompuServe.COM
Wed Mar 5 18:19:08 CST 1997
Eric writes : [snip]
For in GB we share the very same
guilt, and, at least in my part of the world, the obsesions of an
ethnicly
diverse, racialy divided nation. Saying "there is a smaller proportional
difference between white and non-white incomes here than in the US"
(as John Major keeps reminding us from Westminster---but he's not
going for a walk-about in Brixton, his old turf, is he?) cuts zero slack
with me.
AS IF London didn't suffer from massive race obsessions and crazyness
and stupidity! And no Englishman or Scotsman was ever a naive bourgeois!
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."
In the same line of thought, I 'd like to say that if you read Paris and France
for London and Britain, most of Eric's post applies for my part of the world.
Though I'm sorry to say, Eric, we're a lot better than you Brits at creating for
ourselves that box we call America. No-one is ever going to leapfrog us in
anti-American expertise.
Joseph
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