[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Inappropriate content accessed from JKR.com

[Wolfie!]

P. Alexis Nguyen wrote:
> Wolfie! :
>> This is what I notice about the US as an outsider.
>>
>> An American puts their hands over their heart and proudly
>> tells you that they are a freedom loving people.
>>
>> Then you find that they don't want you to do this, and that
>> and the other thing, and no.. that's not right and you
>> shouldn't be doing this here and nope... can't do that and
>> on and on and on and on and on.
> 
> Ali:
> I spent much of my childhood in the US Bible Belt, supposed land of
> the uber-conservatives.  Let me tell you that while most of these
> people found the Janet-nipple incident in poor taste, most of them
> would also not presume to tell you what to think about it.  America is
> a large country, and it is unfair to judge it by looking at the words
> and actions of the far-too-loud far-too-conservative [somewhat large]
> minority.  That is, in my mind, akin to saying that, all Chinese
> people are the same and have a shared Chinese culture, a "fact" that
> is widely "known" and mostly untrue - it's tough to cast an accurate
> net on a very large large and highly varied populace when you're
> focusing on the words and actions of the few whose voices are raised
> loud enough to be reported to the world at large.

Ali, you're right "I will take that on the chin"
I don't like to tar people with the one brush, and I just did.

And I am in the same position, it happens here too...
sometimes I am ashamed of my fellow aussies.
sometimes I get this feeling that a lot of people are just plain
stupid or simply don't take the time to think.

I have not met many Americans who like Bush... you can always tell
the ones who do because they get very defensive and tell you off
if you say "the wrong thing" [which is usually the right thing in
a normal cosmic plane].

I am hoping we can get rid of our incumbent too, how that rotten
little troll has stayed in power for so long is beyond me.
he's nothing but Mr Bush's "Mini me".

Wolfie!