However, as somebody who lives, as Ulhas does, in a "poor" country, I am really tired of hearing long hyperbolic Pilgeresque diatribes (in India, people live 20 to a packing crate!) about how all "poor" countries are utter hellholes. It's offensive. Last post, I'm outta here.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Needless to say, I did not say "the worse the
> better."
> And I while I confess ignorance about almost
> everything, a function of having had to give up
> reading about most things and workimg excessively
> long
> hours, as well as being an American, and therefore
> by
> definition an ethnocentric fool, I am glad to learn
> from Ulhas that the AIDS epidemic in Africa and
> Southeast Asia is a myth, that the world is not
> wracked by war, that polization of wealth ideologies
> is diminishing, that global warming is not a
> problem,
> that the international working class is strong and
> united outside my country, and that things are
> generally coming up roses.
===== Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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