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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:23:07 EST
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- From: James Sheldon <U7636JI@DOES1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: More books and films
- In-Reply-To: note of 12/31/92 00:47
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- I'm sorry, but this is a really naive view which ignores many of histories less
- ons. Ethnic hatred/rivalry is a long seated attitude throughout Europe and var
- ies only by degree from country to country. Do the attitudes of German "skinhe
- ads" differ markedly from the Serbian "chetniks"? What about the "Sons of the
- Armenian Genocide" (an ethnically based terrorist group) attacks on Turkish int
- erests? Even the Britons display animosities between the Welsh, Scots and E
- nglish which are tied to ethnic roots. I find iot interesting to note that Ser
- bs and Moslems lived side-by-side for years under the centrally controlled Yugo
- slav communist dictatorship - how quickly the veneer of brotherhood disappeared
- when there was no one around to enforce it.
- To accept the comments of the captured Serbian "soldier" as his true beliefs st
- retches my credulity. First of all, what did anyone expect to say under the ci
- rcumstances - that he really enjoyed killing, raping and pillaging? The "I was
- only following orders" defense went out with Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
- after WWII.
- Finally, I take exception to characterizing the pumping up of passionate rivalr
- ies in American football as an example of "economically motivated hate." It re
- flects a lack of knowledge of the game and its players and is no more justified
- than attributing the same motive to rival teams in soccer's World Cup. Uncle
- Ernie
-