Fair enough, A Theist. Do bear in mind, though, that had Europeans kept their noses out of the New World over the past five centuries, there wouldn't be an America at all and the continent would still be populated by scattered tribes and nomads, the remnants of which are referred to as 'Native' Americans. Correspondents on this board would certainly not communicate in an Indo-European language now known as English.
Since the advent of cinema and, particularly, television, it's quite amazing how your internal policies, politics and culture now affect even the popular mindset in the remotest corners of the globe in very subtle as well as more obvious ways. Not by any means always a bad thing. Europe and the US, Europeans and Americans, are -- like it or not -- joined at the hip. To paraphrase; a butterfly flutters its wings in Montana and there's a hurricane in Monaco.
I've lived and worked (yup, quite legally) in the US and worked with US publishers for over forty years. Love the country. Love its people. Dislike common ownership and enthusiasm for guns. I also have a thing about universal gun ownership by the Swiss. That OK or is an aversion to compulsory gun ownership in Switzerland also off limits? Switzerland, of course, is not an EU country. Does that make it none of my business? Should I avoid criticism of North Korea, China, Pakistan, Mecca and Vatican City?
When I signed up here just this week, I was encouraged to see an international community in healthy and open debate, AT; I didn't realise there should be national demarcation on some subjects and taboos as to which correspondent was allowed to freely comment on what subject. Apologies if I got that wrong. Bestests. N
Since the advent of cinema and, particularly, television, it's quite amazing how your internal policies, politics and culture now affect even the popular mindset in the remotest corners of the globe in very subtle as well as more obvious ways. Not by any means always a bad thing. Europe and the US, Europeans and Americans, are -- like it or not -- joined at the hip. To paraphrase; a butterfly flutters its wings in Montana and there's a hurricane in Monaco.
I've lived and worked (yup, quite legally) in the US and worked with US publishers for over forty years. Love the country. Love its people. Dislike common ownership and enthusiasm for guns. I also have a thing about universal gun ownership by the Swiss. That OK or is an aversion to compulsory gun ownership in Switzerland also off limits? Switzerland, of course, is not an EU country. Does that make it none of my business? Should I avoid criticism of North Korea, China, Pakistan, Mecca and Vatican City?
When I signed up here just this week, I was encouraged to see an international community in healthy and open debate, AT; I didn't realise there should be national demarcation on some subjects and taboos as to which correspondent was allowed to freely comment on what subject. Apologies if I got that wrong. Bestests. N
"There's an irrational explanation for everything." Neil Marr
