"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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What one sees above Iain is more proof of your ignorance
about the normal scale of doing things in the US.

Why should that be of the slightest interest to me?
This is a) a UK group, and b) I live in Scandinavia,
where N.America and N.American values are held in low
esteem.

Iain, your willful ignorance of actual conditions in the US *proves* that
your low opinion of the US is based on your arrogance, prejudice and
ignorance, which seem to abound.


Arny. You would need to live outside the US in say
Scandinavia for a number of years to see America as
others see it.

It is probably a difference in priorities. Here they put high
value on education, social infrastructure, integration,
work ethic, health and culture.

So it isperplexing to see the American fixation in preserving
the military capability, at any cost, to (as you yourself Arny
put it on RAO) "bomb the rag-heads back into the Stone
Age any time we choose" That seemed a strange thing for
you, as a a love-thy-neighbour Christian, to say.

America doesn't seem very interested in general health
care, and education.

People here, most of whom speak two or three languages
with very good English, find it hard to belive that Detroit,
the city where you live Arny, has an illiteracy level of 47%
Nearly half the population of your city cannot read and
write in their ow language!! Don't you think that's a
disgraceful state of affairs in a country like the USA?

http://www.detroitliteracy.org/faq.htm

The leve of illiteracy in Scandinavia (and keep in mind
that the languages.particularly Danish and Finnish are far
more difficult than English) is 0.5%

http://www.indexmundi.com/norway/literacy.html
http://www.indexmundi.com/sweden/literacy.html
http://www.indexmundi.com/denmark/literacy.html

http://www.indexmundi.com/finland/literacy.html


We observe your political circus, and your constant
need to interfere in the internal politics of other nations.
Maybe the Chinese snub "to mind your own damn
business" will have a positive effect.

Iain

PS I must admit that we envy you Berklee:-)