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- From: naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen)
- Subject: Re: Credit Validation
- In-Reply-To: davidk@welch.jhu.edu's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:46:17 GMT
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- Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:56:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.204617.21122@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> davidk@welch.jhu.edu (David Kitaguchi) writes:
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- In article 92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu, naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
- > "Lady! Lady! I have been fingering you for 10 minutes and you
- > haven't come yet!"
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- >Although true stories, passing around anecdotes like this "for a laugh"
- >further enhance stereotyping of "foreigner"s as speaking "funny english".
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- >Naeem Mohaiemen
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- Give me a break..... Those of us who speak English sound just as stupid in
- the countries of others... A joke is a joke. Eh? No problemo (should be "problema")
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- But there is a difference between the scenario where an American tourist
- goes abroad and "sounds stupid" to people in India and an Indian immigrant
- living in the Bronx who gets called names such as "Ali Baba" as he goes
- to work every day.
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- "I think there is a good deal of evidence that we thought all along that we
- were a redeemer nation. There was a lot of illusion in our national history.
- Now it is about to be shattered."
- [Reinhold Niebuhr on My Lai massacre]
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