On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:58:57 -0400, Stephen Harding
wrote:

Alan Pollock wrote:

In rec.travel.usa-canada Stephen Harding wrote:

I am coming around to absolutely despising Europeans, or
at least a fairly large subset of them!

My take is simply to not take the stupid, blanket-hatred posts too seriously.
Read the reasonable ones and completely ignore the Marie Lewis's you come
across.

The voice of reason!

You are correct of course. And I don't really even come close
to despising Europeans although their constant harping on how
evil the US is and especially Bush gets tiring.

Liberal in the US say pretty much the same thing about Bush as
the Euros do, so I guess it's actually more than a Euro/US thing,
and basically Left/Right politics.


That paragraph actually sums up the vast differences in the ways of
understanding things, not just between the US and Europe, but more the
US and much of the rest of the world. Liberalism is in no way
identifiable with left-wing politics, far from it. It is completely at
odds with any socialist/communist ideals. Ruling liberal political
parties in places as far apart as Europe and Australia are placed
firmly at the centre or centre-right of the political spectrum, with
labour, socialist and other left-wing groupings very much in
opposition to them.


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