Patrick,
True, but you need to remember the size of the country and the cost to
travel outside. I don't need a passport to vist Canada or Mexico. If
the states here were like countries in Europe, my passport would have a
lot of stamps.
Elizabeth
Reno
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Boylan P wrote:
> Robert:
>
> .... and at any one time less than 12% of the US population have a
> passport, and about 48% of the current members of Congress have NEVER had
> a passport! Doesn't stop you running a world that half your law-makers
> and seven-eights of your citizens have never seen, except through
> Hollywood and CNN.
>
> Makes you think....!!
>
> Patrick Boylan
>
> ===============================
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Robert T. Handy wrote:
>
> > You wrote: Isn't that why we still read different newspapers?
> >
> > Don't we wish! Twenty percent of the U.S. population reads a newspaper on
> > a daily basis. That figure drops to fifteen percent in Texas. I ask just
> > about everyone with I come in contact, if they read a newspaper every day.
> > I am astonished at how many do not; even more so when I ask if they read a
> > weekly news magazine. How on earth can people make informed decisions if
> > they do not read?
> >
> >
> > ------
> > Robert Handy
> > Brazoria County Historical Museum
> > 100 East Cedar
> > Angleton, Texas 77515
> > (409) 864-1208
> > museum_bob
> > [log in to unmask]
> > http://www.bchm.org
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Olivia S. Anastasiadis[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 1:29 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shape
> >
> > Interesting point. I would like to get cable just so that I can brush up
> > on my Greek by watching Antenna straight out of Athens, but it comes with
> > 20 other channels I could care less about, so I am still holding strong,
> > no cable in my house. I do watch ABC News but I also switch to PBS to
> > listen to the BBC to learn more about world events and to get a different
> > slant on things. Switching from the visual media, Isn't that why we
> > still read different newspapers? To get different viewpoints? That's
> > why TV really hasn't been the greatest invention, you can still tune it
> > out.
> >
> > O
> > Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
> > Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
> > 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
> > Yorba Linda, CA 92886
> > (714) 993-5075 ext. 224; fax (714) 528-0544; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:18:39 -0400 Jane Sproull Thomson
> > <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> > >I find it kind of interesting that the major events you mention all
> > >happened
> > >in the US. One of the reasons I had our cable disconnected was that
> > >my sons
> > >seemed to be getting the impression, since most cable stations are US
> > >based,
> > >that all world events happen in the US, and if it didn't happen in the
> > >US it
> > >wasn't important. Now we only watch the CBC news, which gives us a
> > >Canadian
> > >slant on events worldwide and uses BBC as well as ABC news reports.
> > >Many
> > >Americans take this dominance for granted...many of you probably don't
> > >know
> > >that at this moment, the US and Canada are engaged in a trade dispute
> > >over
> > >Canada's most recent attempt to protect its cultural industries
> > >internally,
> > >and the US's insistence that we have no right to do this.
> > >What role do museums have in resisting cultural imperialism? Should we
> > >even try?
> > >
> > >
> > >At 10:44 AM 03/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
> > >>In my opinion the invention of the Television changed everything. No
> > >>longer did people have to rely on print or word of mouth the learn of
> > >>events throughout the country or world. We could watch Kennedy being
> > >>assasinated unlike those who learned of Lincoln's death. We could
> > >watch
> > >>the horrors of the Vietnam war instead of listening to reports over
> > >the
> > >>radio. The television puts us at the delivery of septuplets and the
> > >>doorstep of death penalty vigils. I believe that with the TV's
> > >delivered
> > >>to our home brought more immediate knowledge than had ever been
> > >known,
> > >>even those who are illiterate in this day and time can remain
> > >>knowledgeable through the TV; but we also lost our cultural
> > >innocence.
> > >> How much good news is reported in comparison to the amount of bad.
> > >How
> > >>many comparisons to the violence on television to the rise in
> > >violence
> > >>involving our youth, i.e. school murders in Jonesboro, Arkansas, do
> > >we
> > >>hear. There are people today who do not have computers but how many
> > >>homes do not have TV's?
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >>From: Roger Smith
> > >>Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 4:08 AM
> > >>To: [log in to unmask]
> > >>Subject: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shaped th
> > >>
> > >>With Millennium 'madness' looming, I thought it might be rather fun
> > >to
> > >>invite LIST members and individuals to submit their pick of a single
> > >>event
> > >>or decision that, in their opinion, made the most impact upon this
> > >>Century?
> > >>
> > >>The recommendations no doubt will be purely subjective ( perhaps a
> > >trifle
> > >>quirky) and should come with a short sentence of justification!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>The responses will be collated and published in the April edition of
> > >>GLOBAL
> > >>MUSEUM ( in the FORUM section).
> > >>To save bandwidth, could I invite you to mail your contribution off
> > >the
> > >>list
> > >>to:
> > >>[log in to unmask]
> > >>
> > >>I am picking we will have a wide range of choices and l Iook forward
> > >to
> > >>receiving the nominations
> > >>
> > >>Roger
> > >>
> > >>http://www.globalmuseum.org
> > >>
> > >>
> > >Jane Sproull Thomson
> > >
> >
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