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[Greg Stolze]

> Ah, of course.  Sorry I violated groupthink; US / Western Countries ==
> Always Evil, Everywhere Else == Noble.
>
> This from South Africa, no?  One of the countries more violent than
> the US [1][2].
>
> Or is that George Bush's fault?  Damn, my groupthink must be off.

I've heard it blamed on Paul the Apostle, with the explanation that  
the reason Japan has such different attitudes is that there isn't the  
ingrained Pauline attitude.

We may be veering badly off topic here (if that's possible) but I  
recently had a gnomic insight that both the Republicans and the  
Democrats (the dominant strains of American political culture) play  
on hope and fear through assumptions about self and others.

Republicans tend to assume that they, as they hope, are generally  
good, while fearing that other people they don't understand are  
generally bad.

Democrats tend to assume that they, as they fear, are generally bad,  
while hoping that other people they don't understand are generally good.

Needless to say, these observations are (1) stereotypes with room for  
vast difference in individual experience and (2) going on without  
much recourse to evidence.

-G.

Who at first wrote "probably going on mostly without much recourse"  
before deciding that was just way too much waffling, even for a  
bleeding-heart liberal.