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- From: nrswart@phonon.uwaterloo.ca (Nicholas R. Swart)
- Subject: Re: TODAY IN AFRICA.
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- References: <1992Nov17.150116.11660@cs.wayne.edu> <BxyEBn.CI5@casper.cs.uct.ac.za>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:31:23 GMT
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- In article <BxyEBn.CI5@casper.cs.uct.ac.za> gds@cs.uct.ac.za writes:
- >faa@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Felicitas A. Atabong) writes:
- ...
- >
- >As a South African living abroad for quite some time, I was surprised how
- >ignorant people were about Africa. Someone would ask "From where are you?"
- ....
- >Most North Americans think of Africa as one country - just as they
-
- Most North Americans are terribly ignorant about the rest of the world
- including Africa. Not only that, what little they do know is incredibly
- biased by what they see on the television. I was always amazed when coming
- to Canada that I knew more about Canadian history and geography than
- Canadian students! I kid you not! And what little they knew of Africa was
- pure 'politically correct' rot.
-
- >think of North America as one country (and now and then they might concede
- >there are a few snow-bound Canadians to the north :-)
- >--
- >Riel Smit, Computer Science gds@cs.uct.ac.za
- >University of Cape Town gds%cs.uct.ac.za@rain.psg.com
-
- Nicholas
-