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- From: pamela@sscux1.ssc.gov (pamela gurd)
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.165916.13401@sunova.ssc.gov>
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- References: <1993Jan22.151010.17928@acuson.com> <1993Jan22.220321.8579@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan26.114023.28748@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:59:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.114023.28748@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
- >
- >Americans look at other countries and see things by which
- >Americans are not constrained:
- >
- >Official state religions
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- This Canadian now living in the US feels that US natives are much
- less free in the matter of religion. It is strongly encouraged in
- Texas society to go to a Christian church - and didn't a former
- president opine that atheists couldn't be true citizens?
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- On the other hand, schools are much less likely to include anything
- that vaguely comes from religion - no Christmas carols, for example.
- Seems kind of sad to me.
-
- >Mandatory government/military service
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- I was a Canadian college student in the 60s. Vietnam, remember?
-
- >Mandatory separation of college-bound vs. trade-bound students
- >in the early/mid teenage years
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- On the other hand, the children of the ghetto have no chance at
- college much earlier than that.
-
- >That kind of personal (and national) power breeds arrogance and
- >contempt.
-
- I venture to suggest it's not power that breeds arrogance, but
- ignorance. Americans know theirs is the best country in the
- world, and refuse to see any evidence to the contrary.
-
- In fact, countries are even more individual than their inhabitants.
- There isn't one that is better in all ways than all others.
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- Pam.
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