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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
  3. Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
  4. Message-ID: <9301250358.AA01635@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  5. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  6. Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:58:27 CST
  7. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  9. Subject:      Re: Asians
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  12. >That's the problem with Asia:  it stretches from Mediterranean shores
  13. >to the Bering Strait.  Not a proper continent at all!
  14.  
  15. Yes, rather arbitrary, geographically speaking. It ought to be much larger.
  16. Spekaing about culture, I'd say people's perceptions are approximately
  17. right. There is a great difference between, say, China and India. One CAN
  18. see some kind of Indian "influence" into Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, but
  19. certainly not in China. Similarly there is no Chinese influence to speak of
  20. in India.
  21.  
  22. tushar
  23.