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Grex > Agora41 > #112: Why Americans ,in general, are so dumb in geography? | |
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jp2
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response 75 of 360:
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Apr 27 19:41 UTC 2002 |
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janc
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response 76 of 360:
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Apr 28 01:08 UTC 2002 |
Saying "the non-Israeli/Palestin item" would have narrowed it down
more.
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jp2
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response 77 of 360:
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Apr 28 01:40 UTC 2002 |
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sarkhel
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response 78 of 360:
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Apr 28 11:51 UTC 2002 |
Cant u go beyond the boundary where US acted as Big Brother, like Israel and
Palestine? The world is much more bigger and interesting than middle east and
gulf region.As per Geography and mathematics are concerned no one in the world
can outsmart an Indian :-)
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janc
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response 79 of 360:
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Apr 28 12:13 UTC 2002 |
You're right. I don't know about any of the parts of the world where
the US has not acted as big brother.
And I don't think you do either.
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jmsaul
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response 80 of 360:
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Apr 28 14:06 UTC 2002 |
Re #78: Except the Pakistanis. ;-)
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other
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response 81 of 360:
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Apr 28 14:19 UTC 2002 |
re#78 and the Bangladeshi...
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jp2
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response 82 of 360:
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Apr 28 16:50 UTC 2002 |
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slynne
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response 83 of 360:
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Apr 28 18:17 UTC 2002 |
I'll bet the Chinese could give those Indians a run for their money!
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avin
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response 84 of 360:
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Apr 29 11:46 UTC 2002 |
I am sooo happy..now we have truly taken it beyond boundaries..!!
re: 83, think of a scenario where they combine....there will be no cover to
run to...a little bit of geography might come handy that day ! :-)
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sarkhel
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response 85 of 360:
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Apr 29 11:54 UTC 2002 |
Re 80,81 & 83: Forget about Pakis,they are under the control of Mr.Busharaff
and Bangladesh, lets not talk.China??? noone knows what is there behind the
iron curtain
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jmsaul
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response 86 of 360:
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Apr 29 13:26 UTC 2002 |
Lots of people know what's going on in China. Not only do they let tour
groups in, they let a lot of their people come to the US to study. I've met
many of them.
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sarkhel
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response 87 of 360:
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Apr 29 14:00 UTC 2002 |
noone knows what is going on in China, every one knows what they are being
asked ( or advised) to know. Even in a chat room the chinese are not free
totalk about their difficulties, government policies and NOT even free market
system.You may met someone in person but we know the fater of Tibetians
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happyboy
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response 88 of 360:
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Apr 29 14:22 UTC 2002 |
who is fatter than the tibetians?
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jmsaul
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response 89 of 360:
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Apr 29 15:25 UTC 2002 |
Nobody. It's all that yak butter.
This may come as a surprise to you, sarkhel, but we have Tibetans living in
this country who are happy to talk about what's going on in Tibet. We even
have Chinese who are happy to talk about China. I've personally talked to
a Chinese guy who was at Tienanmen Square (he left to get supplies the night
before the massacre). Tibetans come to our contry to talk about Tibet *all
the time*. The Dalai Lama's even been to Ann Arbor. Guess what he talked
about? (Well, he talked about a lot of stuff, but Tibet was one topic.)
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happyboy
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response 90 of 360:
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Apr 29 16:19 UTC 2002 |
did he share some yak butter?
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avin
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response 91 of 360:
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Apr 29 16:24 UTC 2002 |
first I should sorry for the mis print, its "fate" not "fater".
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sarkhel
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response 92 of 360:
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Apr 29 16:43 UTC 2002 |
US now a days dont want to displease China, may be due to business
interest.But will you please talk to a Tibetian and try to understand his
feelings? In India there are huge Tibetian population and they still unable
to forget their past
May be the Tibetian at US have forgotton due to lack of Geographic and
Political knowledge ( A typical US Tibetian?)
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happyboy
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response 93 of 360:
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Apr 29 16:48 UTC 2002 |
naw...the whole *Free Tibet* thing is an active
bumpersticker concern here in the states.
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other
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response 94 of 360:
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Apr 29 16:53 UTC 2002 |
FREE Tibet! (with any purchase)
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slynne
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response 95 of 360:
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Apr 29 16:54 UTC 2002 |
Duh, everyone knows where Tibet is because there was a movie about
Tibet that starred BRAD PITT. Ok, all the women who lust after Brad
Pitt know where Tibet is now. *snort*
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jmsaul
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response 96 of 360:
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Apr 29 17:15 UTC 2002 |
Re #92: Do you agree with everything Vajpayee does? No? Then why do you
assume the Americans you're talking to agree with everything Bush
does?
There's a lot of support for the "Free Tibet" movement here in the
US. I support it, despite the fact that the theocracy the PRC
replaced could be pretty oppressive too -- there's no justification
for systemativally wiping out a culture.
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bdh3
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response 97 of 360:
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Apr 30 07:00 UTC 2002 |
Just out of curiousity, jsaul, what would you have the PRC do now?
I don't recall offhand why the PRC took over Tibet, do you? Perhaps
it was some concept like having more legitimate rights to it than
the british, after all I seem to recall it had an on and off
provincial relationship with the han and later chinese empires. What
would you do with the now generations of ethnic chinese who were
born there? How would you feel if suddenly the PRC got involved in
internal politics of southwestern US states vis-a-vi 'native-american
sovereign states' aka 'indian reservations' after ignoring them
previously? I don't exactly approve of everything the PRC does,
but I sure understand it, and am willing to a great extent to let
them 'tend their own garden'.
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jmsaul
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response 98 of 360:
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Apr 30 14:13 UTC 2002 |
I'm not sure what they should do now, but what they shouldn't have done was
to move massive numbers of non-Tibetans into the country and oppress the hell
out of the people already living there. The difference between what they're
doing and what we did in the SW US is that they started it 40 years ago.
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happyboy
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response 99 of 360:
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Apr 30 15:50 UTC 2002 |
it still goes on here.
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