queers. On making Class real.

Trond Andresen t.andresen at uws.edu.au
Mon May 25 20:34:06 PDT 1998


Many on this list call for a sensitivity to race, sex, gender issues - not only the class conflict. I am in sympathy with this. But I think it is then fair to ask for recognition of another problem: That North Americans (f.inst. the majority on this list) have a tendency to forget that that there are - outside the U.S. - other countries, other cultures, other histories, other outlooks, other experiences and other languages than English.

Regardless of how progressive and multicultural etc. you U.S. Internetters are, you always have this tendency to hold discussions as if everyone participating or listening in, lives in the U.S. And many of you doesn't show the faintest interest in what is going on elsewhere.

Trond Andresen male, white, heterosexual, -but Norwegian- creature ;-)



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