Nikolay: You write with much wisdom and compassion! Especially for a youngster of 24!
Thanks for the post! Jim Elwell At 09:34 AM 12/17/2001 -0700, Nikolay O. Malyarov wrote: >Dear Wizard: > >Well, I have abstained from responding to this long enough, I think. To >start off, I am not an American. I live in the U.S., yet not until very >recently did I decide to become an American citizen (and primarily for >the reason to ease travel around the world). But that is beyond the >point. This email is to let you know what I have felt when I was >reading your posts over the last several months. > >1. With your pro-metrication posts you are preaching to the choir on >this list, >2. With senseless bashing of Americans, who comprise a majority of this >list, you are angering even your supporters-in-the-cause, >3. With this negative attitude you are also angering non-Americans on >this list as well (I have a feeling that there are others besides me who >feel this way), >4. Generalising all Americans (or any other nation for that matter) >into one single group is wrong. Others expounded on that, and I shall >spare the list from exhausting repetitiveness, >5. Etc. > >I understand that you have too much teenage anger in your blood. Yet, >there are several of us here, on this list, who consider ourselves young >(I am 24, if you care to know). But it would serve the list well, if >you learn to control your anger, and prevent yourself from turning this >list into a forum discussing each nation's mentality, deficiencies, and >weaknesses. Moreover, this type of self-control will benefit YOU the >most, because you will not be able to achieve anything in life if you >continue practicing what you were doing in the past little while (My >first half a year in the U.S. as an exchange student in 1994 at age 17 >was a true test of this theory). Diplomacy is the key to co-operation >and mutual understanding! I wish you well in your future endeavours, >hoping that at some point of your life, you will get to know various >cultures better and will learn to understand and APPRECIATE the >differences that they have. > >Cheers, >Nikolay Malyarov > >P.S. Nobody likes to be hated, and judging from your email address, I am >sure you are more than familiar with that. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On >Behalf Of Wizard of OS >Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 9.04 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:16682] Re: I don't understand American attitude! > >yeah yeah > >"And if you want to help the USA metricate, I suggest you start trying >to >understand what motivates Americans, rather than just berating us for >not >thinking like you do. Because we do NOT think like you and that is NOT >going to change." > >sometimes I have the impression that Americans dont think or dont want >to >think at all!! > >Like that nintendo guy! >
