Lisa Brincks Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 (edited) Sorry, I am not sure if this is the best place for this but I thought this was interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/re.../Dyer-t.html?em Edited January 8, 2010 by Lisa Brincks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Pretty perceptive article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob G Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Sorry, I am not sure if this is the best place for this but I thought this was interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/re.../Dyer-t.html?em Benevolence is often taken as naiveté or gullibility. As Americans, we still have much to be proud of. Let's hope and work to retain that spirit. Ayn Rand often talked about the American People and their strength and openness. It takes an honest Brit to recognize what was happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecherry Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 I wonder if it doesn't strike the author as odd and relevant that the same country which has been quicker to jump on the band wagon of saying people are owed things like a certain minimum of health care at other's expense just for existing - what is referred to as a more advanced political and ethical stance there - is the same one with a more common and wide spread view of people giving them stuff for free or treating them to nice things as being like something gullible suckers do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J. Kolker Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 I plan to remain open, cheerful and polite regardless of how unsophisticated that may seem to worldlier Europeans. A perusal of European history in the 20-th century is a pretty good measure of what their sophistication is worth -- not much. Bob Kolker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tito Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 "Civic life in Britain is predicated on the idea that everyone just about conceals his loathing of everyone else" Hahaha, this is so true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosopher Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 I am from Australia but lived a while in the US, and I always tell Aussie people here how polite Americans are and they don't believe me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capitalism Forever Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 The author is obviously a hardcore liberal, but I guess some facts are so glaring even they have to acknowledge them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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