Subject: Entering the cynicism quadrant.<br/>
Date: Nov 26, 2001 @ 23:05<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1823230973"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;What about all those European countries with lots of colonies back in<br/>
&gt;the 19th century? All those Papua children having to learn at school<br/>
&gt;that their capital was either Amsterdam, London, or Berlin? And those<br/>
&gt;colonial subjects in big chunks of Africa having to learn to be proud<br/>
&gt;of some popular revolution back in 1789 in a far-away place called<br/>
&gt;Paris that finally liberated the ordinary people&gt;<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Whereas today, they learn their capital is only on loan from the IMF or <br/>
World Bank, and has to be repaid?<br/>
How about all those Acehnese learning that their capital is Jakarta, not <br/>
Banda Aceh as it was in the nineteenth century when they were independent?<br/>
BW<br/>
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