Re: Country Related: Christmas

   Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:04:33 -0500
   From: John Cowan <cowan@...>

   The Treaty of Tripoli (ratified 1792, the first between the U.S.
   and a Muslim power) says "The United States is in no sense founded
   on the Christian religion"; like other treaties, this forms part of
   the "supreme law of the land" (U.S. Constitution Arcticle VI
   section 2). I have also found this phrase attributed to George
   Washington.

That's as may be, but the image projected to the rest of the world is
of a country obsessed with superficial Protestant-derived morals,
laced with a ridiculous insistence on an even more superficial and
formulaic racial/cultural pseudo-neutrality, where the ultimate goal
of every social and ethnic group is to get enough money to stuff
themselves silly at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

If the US is a true multicultural society, then why is it only the
guys in the WASP ghetto that make movies and TV?

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)