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. That's why there are 7 continents, not 6. 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. > > 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. > 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. 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
