2008/5/23 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that your myopic views (and this thread) are more appropriate on > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
True, but the subject was raised here so here I replied. I will not encourage further list erosion by posting new material, but I will counter these points. > Before I hit the "K" key for this thread, I will add: > > I live in the San Francisco bay area and the demographics for my city > are incredibly diverse. Our local high school has: > > <quote> > About 130 ethnic and national minority groups are represented. A total > of 1,414 students have a primary language other than English. More than > half of the students are of Vietnamese and Filipino American descent. > Other Asian Pacific American (APA) groups in order of population include > Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese > Americans, Polynesian Americans, and Hmong Americans. 40% is of Asian > (non-Filipino) descent, 20% is Filipino. Almost 17% of the student body > is Hispanic American, about 15% is white, and approximately 4% is > African American. > </quote> San Fransisco is known as an incredibly diverse city. Apparently most of it's present day inhabitants come of lineage that crossed an ocean, not those who crossed a continent, to get their. > I have 3 passports; 2 expired with many added extended foldout pages, > and at last count I think that I have visited close to 30 countries. I > lived in Japan for over 5 years, Australia for 2, Singapore, Korea, Hong > Kong, etc. I am American. You also use and promote open source software. I would say that you are not the typical American in much the same sense that you are not the typical computer user. I say that as a compliment, in much the same sense that my generalizations of earlier were made in good spirit. There is nothing surprising about exceptions to generalizations. That is why they are called generalizations and not rules. > Now, off to find that "K" key... Have I been killfiled? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
