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- From: flc@mips.com (Fred Cox)
- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
- Subject: Re: Fruit in an Elevator
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:13:17 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- References: <BzG6H8.G23@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec19.185031.20099@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec20.034832.20948@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Dec20.194801.13900@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) amusingly writes:
- >Who said I couldn't appreciate a good shenanigan? Perhaps we have different
- >standards. Beyond the cavalier attite which is endemic of our first world
- >perspective, there wasn't anything remaining that was anything more than
- >a 'you had to be there' kind of slapstick. Not the essence of a good prank,
- >or shenanigan (whatever the diference is)
-
- Even though I consider myself a liberal, I always have to laugh when I
- see some overly PC person try to categorize North America as the first
- world.
-
- Get it right, guys!
-
- From the Eurocentric perspective in the 15th century, there was the
- known world, which consisted of Europe, Africa and Asia.
-
- Then a guy called Columbus "discovered" the New World, AKA the
- Americas.
-
- Then in the '60s or perhaps earlier, what is perhaps more properly
- known as the developing world became known as the 3rd world. Note
- that all of the third world consists of parts of the old world and
- parts of the new one.
-
- If you want to think of waves of industrial development, then Europe
- would be the First World, the US/Canada is the Second World, and
- everyone else is the Third World.
-
- In none of the above nomenclatures is the US part of the First World.
-
- Serious enough for y'all? :-)
-
- Fred Cox
- flc@mti.sgi.com
-