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Thread #47562   Message #710335
Posted By: Fortunato
13-May-02 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are Americans 'insular'?
Subject: RE: BS: Are Americans 'insular'?
But who are these Americans you ask about? Do you mean the people I know?

Dr. Chen
B.Deer
G. Alderdice
M. Kim
R.Kavanaugh
M.Mawniki
L.Gonzalez
M.Murthy
S. Sullivan
K.Szakos
Well, answering for the people I know, their world awareness and their personalities differ so greatly that no generalizations can be made. If people want to believe there large numbers of homogenized Americans all marching to the same drummer, well go ahead. But that doesn't make it so. Turn off your television; disconnect from CNN. Walk our city streets, visit our small towns, have a coffee or a beer in a local tavern. Eat at the Snappy Lunch. Come see us. We aren't in the media and we aren't in the movies and we surely aren't on the television. It isn't real, friends. Neither is the public face of our politicians.