On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:03, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:12:15 -0500, > > > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > Pigeon writes: > > > > > > I was under the impression that "Serbian" was written with > > > > > > Roman characters, and "Croatian" with Cyrillic, but they > > > > > > were actually the > > > > > > > > ..the other way around. > > > > > > > > > > same language, hence "Serbo-Croatian". How close to the > > > > > > truth is this? > > > > > > > > > > "A language is a dialect with its own army and navy." > > > > > > > > ..historically, the white man used his military and political > > > > power and, this language as part of "nation building". ;-) > > > > > > As have every other conquering nation or tribe. > > > > > > Why do people think that Europeans > > > > ..here we go: "Europeans"? Is "Europe" any less part of Asia than > > India and China? ;-) > > Yes, it is. ..how? Both India and China has 3 times as many people. These also has as much saline water and even less rock between themselves and Asia. ;-) ..or, whould we look into the source of this language, politics? ;-) > That's why there are 7 continents, not 6. ..I'll buy the 7'th being Kalaallit Nunaat, aka Greenland. ;-) > But what does that have to do with my point that people have the > same basic emotions/needs (greed, hunger) in a Corporate Boardroom > in New York or London and in a little village in China or India. ..you call people from Western Asia, "Europeans". What's in it for you? ;-) > > > are any different than any other > > > "race"? Before the Renaissance, Europeans were just like the vast > > > majority of the world's poor are now: scraping out a meager > > > existence, oppressed by landlords, superstitious, uneducated, and > > > occasionally conquered, and thus landlord X substituted for > > > landlord Y. > > > > ..well, under today's international legal regime with control over 5 > > out of the 5 veto seats in the UN Security Council, white man > > qualifies > > USA (1) > ENGLAND (2) > RUSSIA (3) > FRANCE (4) > PRC > > Chinese are, well, Chinese, not European/Caucasian, so I'm kinda > confused here. > > > enough > > as "Herrmensch" to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass > > off. > > Ummm.... "Herr" is like "Sir", and "mensch" is plural of "man", I > think. "Sir man" is, pardon the pun, a foreign concept to me. > Surely, it's an idiom, though, that I'd understand in a different > form. ..Monique got it closer. ;-) > > Red China Communism came from where? ;-) > > So the idea came from Germany, and then got twisted from Marx's > idea of revolt by workers in the Industrial Revolution to justifi- > cation of mass starvation (in the 1950s) of peasants and then the > Cultural Revolution, while Mao was living like an Emperor. ..bravo, not bad. Not at all bad. ;-) > Face it: where ever you go, there are people who are ambitious and > hard working enough to move "up the ladder", whether that be in a > semi-capitalistic or "communal" system, and a democracy/republic > or an authoritarian state. Every one else just wants their rice > bowl. ..yeah, billions is thrown into modifying rice genome to get it to do what an avocado a day can do for your health, I dunno about the rest of mankind, myself I like exciting food, but I think I'd prefer an avocado a day in a rice diet, over an 100% rice diet, especially if the rice is genetically modified to "do what an avocado a day can do for your health", but then again, that's just me. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
