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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:53:35 CST
- From: <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93007.105335U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: The Blessings of MULTICULTURALISM
- References: <93004.154249U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> <C0F1II.I25@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- <1993Jan6.101755.1909@Princeton.EDU> <C0GvMJ.Cvz@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- In article <C0GvMJ.Cvz@ddsw1.mcs.com>, arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) says:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan6.101755.1909@Princeton.EDU> niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
- >(David Marc Nieporent) writes:
- >>In <C0F1II.I25@ddsw1.mcs.com> arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) writes:
- >>>In article <93004.154249U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >>
- >>>>be representative of the entire length and breadth of Hispanic culture and
- >>>>society?
- >>
- >>>>Furthermore,how is one tragic incident _caused_ by the aforementioned macho
- >>>>celebration rite supposed to stain the entire idea of understanding other
- >>>>cultures on a basis other than the inane gibberish you churn out regularly?
- >>
- >>>First of all, it was the AP that called it a Hispanic tradition. I only
- >>>pointed out that we would be better off if it had stayed in Hispania.
- >>
- >>Where?
-
-
- >Just about as silly as African-American isn't it?
-
- You _did_ invent the term "Hispania",Jack,so you should know first hand
- about its silliness,right?
-
- > All black people are
- >from Africa according to Sister Solja. She is an African child but so
- >is De Klerk and confused are they all.
-
- Aside from the fact that "and confused are they all" is an utterly un-
- grammatical phrase,the only thing the above "observation" seems to indicate
- is that you're assuming that Sister Souljah is universally accepted as a
- spokesman for the African American community-a blatant assertion if there
- ever was one,of course.
-
- Likewise,what in the hell does it have to do with the original sub-
- ject of this post?
-
- >>It's sort of odd to say "other" cultures when you live in the United
- >>States, since there isn't a native culture here at all. Virtually *all*
- >>of the culture in this country was imported.
-
- >If you deny the existance of "other" cultures, than you deny the existance
- >of multiculturalism, which happens to be the subject of this thread.
-
- Thanks for displaying the intellectual cowardice necessary to ignore Mr.
- Nieporent's previous paragraph,Jack. What your "reply" to that paragraph
- has to do with the _existence_ of those cultures (as opposed to your
- solipsistic "denial" of their existence,whatever _that_ means) is an
- intellectual puzzle I'll save for later,along with your suspicious argu-
- ment that all Hispanics are "barbarians" by virtue of the actions of one
- subset of that group.
-
- ** Chris Krolczyk,esq. * DISCLAIMER: My opinions are in **
- ** Maniac-at-Large * no way endorsed by the Univer- **
- ** U19807@UICVM.BITNET * sity of Illinois at Chicago. **
- ** u19807@uicvm.uic.edu * So much for frivolous lawsuits.**
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