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Dave Hansen
iddw at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 27 10:27:10 EST 2006
Just a couple half-serious responses to your comment...
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:05:15 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Magnus Lycka
<lycka at carmen.se> wrote:
>Terry Hancock wrote:
>> That's interesting. I think many people in the West tend to
>> imagine han/kanji characters as archaisms that will
>> disappear (because to most Westerners they seem impossibly
>> complex to learn and use, "not suited for the modern
>> world").
>I don't know about "the West". Isn't it more typical for the
>US that people believe that "everybody really wants to be like
>us". Here in Sweden, *we* obviously want to be like you, even
>if we don't admit it openly, but we don't suffer from the
>misconception that this applies to all of the world. ;)
1) Actually, we don't think "everyone wants to be like us." More like
"anyone who doesn't want to be like us is weird."
2) This extends to our own fellow citizens.
Regards,
-=Dave
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