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From:  Tako Oda <toda@m...>
Tako Oda <toda@m...>
Date:  Tue Oct 24, 2000  8:17 pm
Subject:  Re: Entrenched Thinking or Pops VS Ops


On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Caio Rossi wrote:
>> You seem to argue simply because you can and you like the negative attention
>
> I agree: I argue because I can. If I couldn't, I wouldn't.

There are other options, Caio. You could just sit back and listen. You
could choose your battles carefully.

Maybe you would learn something from the many intelligent people on this list.

> Political correction, the basis to the 'new left', is the same basis to
> imperialism and capitalism nowadays. who are Clinton and Blair and all the
> 'new left' leaders but the representatives of the 'new left' AND the New
> World Order?

Just for the record, I do not subscribe to political correctness and am
even less sympathetic to the so-called agenda of the US Democratic party.
I will vote for Nader, not necessarily because I am in complete alignment
with his ideas, but to shake up our corrupt government a bit. I think for
myself, thank you.

> BTW, 'YOUR" POINT OF VIEW IS ETHNOCENTRIC, since all you said to
> support your perspective is that it is good for you ethnic group.

That is not what ethnocentric means. It means one only see things from
one's culture's point of view, without realizing one's value systems are
affecting perceptions. It's obvious to me you've bought into the American
dream, and you're not even in the US!

btw, I do care about other groups other than my own. Do you?

> BTW, intelligence is intelligence. Ethnocentric intelligence is
> completely meaningful to me. What does it mean?

An ethnocentric intelligence test is based on a body of knowlege and
valued concepts for those in power. When applied to people of other
cultures, they will by defintion do poorly.

Tako


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