Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxi!cher From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Americans Message-ID: <1026@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 21:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1026 Posted: Wed Aug 15 21:07:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:51:42 EDT References: <371@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP>, <527@denelcor.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 Americans more jingoistic? One theater in Paris got fined ~ 10,000 by government body supervising purity of the language and culture for staging a play in English. German population examplified some notoriously nationalistic behavior in the first half of the century. Rigidly exclusive social castes in British society are known for their arrogantly patriotic attitudes. Russians proudly announce their compatriots inventors of radio and steam engine. How do Americans deserve the jingoistic edge you give them?