Just a couple half-serious responses to your comment... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:05:15 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Terry Hancock wrote: >> That's interesting. I think many people in the West tend to >> imagine han/kanji characters as archaisms that will >> disappear (because to most Westerners they seem impossibly >> complex to learn and use, "not suited for the modern >> world"). >I don't know about "the West". Isn't it more typical for the >US that people believe that "everybody really wants to be like >us". Here in Sweden, *we* obviously want to be like you, even >if we don't admit it openly, but we don't suffer from the >misconception that this applies to all of the world. ;) 1) Actually, we don't think "everyone wants to be like us." More like "anyone who doesn't want to be like us is weird." 2) This extends to our own fellow citizens. Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list