Now I grew up in the South (where we are supposedly more racist than anywhere) but I have never in my lifetime seen as blatant a racism as I saw in <SOME> of the French towards north africans. I saw the same in Italy when more immigrants started showing up there, and I recall getting lectured about how all the Chinese should be run out of Italy (there are only a handful of chinese in Italy).
Of course, it would be stupid of me to say all europeans are racist, but there is a category of europeans that say such things about Americans. Those europeans need to get off their fucking high horse.
> > Europeans, who are more civilised and also
> experienced the horrors of
> > war themselves, are much less gung-ho.
Which Europeans? The ones that belong to the National Front, who want to protect the purity of French culture, language and race? The Italians who voted in Berlusconi? The neo-nazis in Germany? There is some truth that some Americans might be more gung-ho because there hasn't been a war on American soil in over a hundred years. However, you will find that a lot of soldiers who went to war and saw the horrors have no romantic notions about war.
-Thomas
--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> Wojtek:
>
> > Most US-ers are ignorant and arogant
> > buffoons who will use every opportunity to show
> their superiority by
> > "kicking butt." They love Bush an cannot wait for
> his invasion of Iraq,
===== <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
-Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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