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In Reply to: Re: The Family is an extension of the American culture posted by Peace (not NDN Mir) on October 12, 2008 at 13:49:31:
Frankly what I felt was weird...but not right away, was this incredible push for the English language, with the misfortune at the end, that many SGAs couldn't speak/write properly in the mothertongue of their mother (funny wording)..
I regret that...that drive was supposedly eliminating anything segregational...nationalistic...clubbish....& furthering "unity"...& as a language-course funtioned Berg great letters...after all he had the fitting IQ.
But to be fair, I have to say, that Berg countless times mentioned how he appreciated the British/Oxford way of pronounciation, hated much of America & didn't want to return there for more than one reason (being looked for was may be the biggest??)...in being so anti-Jewish, he was also anti-American & with his anti-Jewish stance he riminds me of the late Luther, who tried in his earlier years to win the Jews over, so to speak...but later resumed to hateful tirades
So I am not so sure, that it was a "plot", well thought of, to propagate the American way of life...I've been in several different "national" homes & think, that nationals couldn't hide their national traits, although having been part of TF for longer...therefore the Americans in TF still very much reminded us of them being American, a bit different though ; )...that doesn't surprise me & I wouldn't think, they were there on the foreign fields to spread the American way, although, sure that "American invention" TF, was very much spread around the world, whether all the poor nationals wordlwide identified that immediately with the west/America, I don't know...it's very likely.
May be we didn't stress it enough, that the basic,fundamental faith was a "heavenly"..middle eastern (on the ground)-invention...although, in case you are aware of it...in the later True Komix or cartoons, Jesus always had darker shades/complexion...
By the way, I have a hard time always seperating politics...religion & everything to the nth degree...I appreciate your's & Don's very good intentions in this regard, but I already "mildly" protested in that regard to WC....this shifting around with microscopic cut is really not my thing...I suggested, if something is about TF, whatever it may be, it could/should belong to TF...I can't help it, that some people got incredibly burned in TF & can't even put their eyes on the word of G_d ...for me that gets to be a bit too much...TF was about politics & religion & if for histories sake or else there has to be a mention of that, well then the context warrants it, IMO...this has nothing to do with preaching
The atheist knows very well to take part in discussions about God among non-atheists & knows very well, that the other conterpart has a believing stance & many times a "sound"/stable atheist can swallow that...I would like to believe...also a "good believer" should "every now & then" have the patience he thinks to have or at least finds in the Bible being talked about, to counter mildly the "onthrust" of the atheist....those who complained the loudest about the lack of space here for non-believers are not posting anymore....apparently they have something more dire now..."good" (for them)...but now to resort completely to tip-toeing when we talk about TF's policies is something a bit too much, IMO...if I want to say something about my religious opinions I find my way to journeys & if Perry intended something to say about his now lack of faith stance, he also found the way to journeys...but if I want to say something about how I felt about TF-policies in the past, no matter what they were, politics or religion, I think they ought to be on genX....just my opinion
