Re: Language naming terminology
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Wednesday, September 23, 1998, 1:46 |
|---|
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:03:48 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>
>Americans tend to see themselves as a special nation, that is somehow
>different from the rest of the world, much as Israel saw and sees
>itself as
>unique (this would seem to be confirmed by a recent poll, where
>something
>like 71% of those polled held something like that belief).
>
>=======================================================
>Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
>ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom
That is very very weird.... In Judaism there are two concepts, _or
lagoyim_ (a light to the nations) and _`am sgulah_ (treasure-nation),
which can be interpreted at first glance as being somewhat similar to
that, but Israel is primarily secular, and most of Israelis are secular,
so i don't see how they would get that attitude. But Israel is pretty
unique anyway....you usually don't see a nation come back to life for a
*second time* after more than a thousand years of nonexistence.
And they should have called it Judea anyway ;)
-Stephen (Steg)
_____________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com
Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]