Very sad. It is the ignorance of ONE person, not a country and these ignorant beings exist in all countries. It's a shame that it reflects on the entire country as a whole when it is only a few. Of course, that was the point earlier on, wasn't it? The attitude of many people towards another people as a whole due to the actions of a 'few.' Without lifting the entire world's state of consciousness, I have little hope of it changing-only the 'targets' change.

Tracy

>>It's amazing the attitude people have towards other countries and somehow that attitude is carried over to the people of the country that typically have nothing to do with the reasons the country is despised to begin with!
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>Hi Tracy,
>heh-heh
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>Once upon a wife (1st one was black-haired and dark skinned) a women entered the fashion store my wife was manager of and confidently launched into scolding her (this was during the "lets hate Iran/ians" early 80's) telling her denigrating things about "you people than come here and just want to take the benefits of *our* land", being "here first", and how "if you people don't want to become American" (i.e. assimilation) that she should "just go back to where" she came from. Apparently this women assumed my wife to be Iranian.
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>Punch line? My wife was %100 Native American.
>(Now re-read the women's above diatribe.)
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>Poetic justice happens,
>Steven-