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Re: Colonial Resistence
JOHN LANGDON (LANGDON@GANDLF.UINDY.EDU)
Tue, 7 Dec 1993 08:08:44 -0500
In message <Pine.3.03.9312061756.A29145-a100000@unixd4.cis.pitt.edu> Daniel A
Ponech writes:
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> On Mon, 6 Dec 1993, JOHN LANGDON wrote:
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> > What you suffer from is not neoColonialism but tyranny of the tabloid
> > mentality.
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> Some would argue, though, (and I submit it here only as a point for
> discussion;-)) that the bulk of the "tabloid mentality" in N.A. is based
> in the U.S. and exported a la cultural colonialism. It's an old arguement
> with lots of holes, but it keeps coming back.
>
I could just as easily have pointed out that both US and Canada suffer from an
inundation of details of the daily lives and trials of Di, Chuck, and Fergie. I
doubt we invented scandle sheets, although we are certainly disproportionate
consumers of them (as we are of everything else).
JOHN H. LANGDON email LANGDON@GANDLF.UINDY.EDU
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY FAX (317) 788-3569
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS PHONE (317) 788-3447
INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227
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