Re: RARA-AVIS: List of 100 Best hard boiled characters of thelast 100 years

From: Thomas Bauduret ( suspiria@club-internet.fr)
Date: 22 Mar 2002

le 22/03/02 13:56, Rene Ribic ࠼A HREF="mailto:rribic@optusnet.com.au?subject=Re:%20RARA-AVIS:%20List%20of%20100%20Best%20hard%20boiled%20characters%20of%20thelast%20100%20%20years&replyto=B8C1874E.3D2D%25suspiria@club-internet.fr">rribic@optusnet.com.au a 飲it :

>>>
>> HemS Goes to prove that I'm pretty naive when I set my mind to itS I'd
> never
>> have thought such omission was even thinkableS
>>
>> T.
>>
>
> Maybe you're just younger?

Sounds likely ! :)

 When I went to school, ethnocentrism was
> definitely the order of the day. The idea that other cultures may be
> equal to, let alone superior to our European (& specifically in that
> time, "British") culture was unthinkable.

So it's Berlusconi time all over again ? :)

Nowadays, even in these
> comparitively mean & xenophobic times, Australia prides itself on it's
> multi-cultural society but when I went to school, literature that would
> now be considered pernicious & racist was used as school texts. I guess
> that's something I can console myself with next time our politicians
> win a landslide election by vilifying & demonising some of the poorest &
> most oppressed people on the planet as terrorists & people who drown
> their kids in order to get the local equivalent of a green card.
> (Refugee status).
>
ŠMeaning that, anyway, they are the BAAAAAD, while we are GOOD. Collateral damages et alŠ

T.

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