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Comments on: Stereotypes Can Get You Killed https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/25/stereotypes-can-get-you-killed/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/25/stereotypes-can-get-you-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-16958 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:54:23 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/25/stereotypes-can-get-you-killed/#comment-16958 This entire mess is the result of a bunch of civil servants in London and Paris drawing lines on maps of countries they’ve never seen. The maps they were drawing on weren’t even very accurate and in some cases they didn’t even bother to connect all of the lines. There still isn’t an official border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

If I had been this sloppy when I was watching the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, there would be a glowing pit where Omaha, Nebraska used to be.

I don’t understand this. When I was stationed overseas in the 1960s and 70s I received a package of materials on the country I was going to be living in. There were lists of do’s and don’ts included with a basic language phrase book. The unit I was going to would supply more information on the individual town where the base was located.

We used to do these things, but we don’t anymore. It’s like they just don’t care.

]]> By: cat daddy and dr. squeeky https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/25/stereotypes-can-get-you-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-16952 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:22:13 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/25/stereotypes-can-get-you-killed/#comment-16952 What do you mean differences…. Aren’t all Muslim the same?… Are you saying, like, all Whites are not British, or that all Blacks don’t come from the Bronx, or that all Hispanics are not from Mexico?

I don’t know, your blog can be controversial, but this is really pushing it Mister…

ON the other hand… we don’t have the interest in finding out about them, we may actually begin to care about them… It’s a lot safer to remain distant and informed only by stereotypes and the wornderful information we get from the traditional sources and the government… I wonder if some Romans had a similar conversation at some point while they shared time at the public toilets… I don’t think they realized they wouldn’t be an empire forever…

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