Re: OT: libraries (was Re: dialectal diversity in English)

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Just my 2cents on this......
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Sure, but I can't imagine what interest group would object to more
> books
> on
> > non-Western history.
>
> Just those who think that W. European/Christian civilization & history
> (and
> specifically US) are the only ones that count.  Good grief, you
> wouldn't
> want people getting the idea that someplace else might be different,
> or
> possibly (gasp) better????
The western supremacists I've come across have been less easily worried - they
couldn't care less if someone wants to write or read books on China or similar
insignificant places, and won't care a damn if such books occur in the local
library unless you remind them that they're paying for it via their taxes.

                                                                    Andreas