Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ...
by madaxe_again on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:05AM
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That's how people with an inadequate exposure to multiple cultures during childhood work.... such as most Americans, sadly, who remain fantastically insular. As a British kid in US school for a year, I was astounded to find that of this group of "elite" children, only two (other than myself) had ventured beyond Illinois, and one abroad - to Canada.
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Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ...
by philwelch on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:30PM
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Did you not also perceive that Illinois is in the middle of nowhere? If you're in England you might end up in Paris just on a bender (citation: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509837/Teenager-wen...).
Still, judging from the actions of the democratically elected UK government, you lot don't seem to do much better...
Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ...
by madaxe_again on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @01:59AM
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Oh, indeed. Geography is no small part of it. Folks from corners of the world in proximal contact with other cultures end up with far more cultural cross-talk and the ensuing ability to understand other cultures... or they have the inverse reaction, of outright xenophobia.
Our government isn't democratically elected - had they enacted the electoral reforms that they said they would, the next might have been - but they won't, and it won't be.