Re: silly questions re national/unit pride

I'm only going to make one more set of comments, and then drop this. 
It's 
going nowhere.

Regarding Beth et al's Aussie comments:

It's a shame that US-bashing is so big in Australia, considering how
much WE 
like YOU folks.  It smacks a bit of a case of the Something-to-proves. 
And 
it's even sadder that you would trust ANY media to defin us.  If I
listened 
to OUR media, I'd think all Strines were either lazy, beer-guzzling
types 
with a penchant for leather vests and croc-tooth decorated hats, or
Steve 
Irwinesque psychos with a hting for fondling Mambas ("Crikey, isn't he a

beauty!  He doesn't wanna hurt me, he just wants left alone, that's why
I'm 
manhandling him like a two bit hooker!")  I'm smart enough to understand
the 
difference between reality and the media.  It'd be nice if we were
accorded 
the same courtesy.

As for our elections, understand how big the country is population-wise,
and 
how many states fall under the federal gov't.  There's an issue of scale
to 
consider.  And, while it does require money and connections, it is still

possible for someone in America to acquire these things, even if it
takes a 
generation for the influence to kick in once they did (How many of our
rich 
presidents are descended by only a couple generations from the poor?)

As for the NAC controversy, I'm not disputing the NAC.	 But the Canon
only 
says we were rejoined, it doesn't say we were dragged in in chains. 
Tomb 
asked us to find ways to make the NAC work, and as Mr. Atkinson pointed
out, 
it would most likely include a good deal of concessions to the
Americans.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

>From: "Flynn Richardson" <Flynn.Richardson@unilever.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: "GZG list" <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: silly questions re national/unit pride
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:37:14 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
>
>Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 21:25:03 -0800
>From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Questions regarding NAC ground units, was SG IF morale
>
>", it's a reborn British Empire inspired merely to
>say, "Screw you, Yanks."
>
>Brian B2
>"
>
>Well said that man.  :-\
>
>
>Flynn Richardson
>Special Projects Manager
>Unilever Australasia
>
>

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