On Tuesday, 04.01.2005 at 10:27 -0500, Brendan wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:08, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Tuesday, 04.01.2005 at 09:22 -0500, Brendan wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 04:26, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > > In a country of 300M people, [...] > > > > > > > > Sounds like you're referring to the US. Why restrict your > > > > comment to the US? Your remark would have more credibility if > > > > you weren't so US-centric. > > > > > > I don't want to disrupt your obvious ploy for anti-US sentiment, > > > but maybe he doesn't speak for other countries for a reason? Maybe > > > he lives in the US? Just a guess. > > > > My comment wasn't anti-US. My comment was certainly > > anti-UScentricism, though. > > > > I was pointing out that that the original poster appeared to be > > speaking for the US, where the issue is larger than that. > > So? He was speaking for what he knows. We should all be so smart. > [...] So he knows what 300 million USA residents think? And yet nothing of the remainder of the world's population? Doubtful. His original comment read "In a country of 300M people, there *will* be some people who say, 'It sounds too black.'" It would be more reasonable to have simply removed "in a country of 300M people". This generalises his remark in a perfectly sensible way without putting on the irritating US-centric hat. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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