The way rumours are spread after the horrible events of September 11th, will probably make up material for at least a couple of PhDs. I've seen some good sincere suggestions on this and other e-mail lists. Americans, and especially the people who lost their loved ones, are in everyone's thoughts at the moment. That is just and right after this pointless violence.
We living in other countries keep our breath and our fingers crossed that America will handle the situation in a way to continue to earn our good opinion. So, in the small way I can assist you achieve that, I suggest that everyone that keeps spreading this so called "Tribute to the Unites States" get them self a history book. The piece is full of misunderstandings, if not downright lies. I understand that there are many Americans who are shocked and want to feel that they are great, do that. You are a great country, but. Spreading things like this is making you open for accusations of ignorance as well as arrogance.
I have received this text several times over the last couple of days. Once the sender (another European) had attached "There are some fucking stupid people around in the US!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - don't give people the opportunity to think that. Be proud, but keep the profile low enough (and correct!) to keep the support you've got from the rest of the world.
Kristina Svensson
Europe
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 23:11:45 -0500
From: Lori Allen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: America: The Good Neighbor
This almost makes me want to get that dish thingy so I can get 379,546
channels, including Canadian TV. Read on and smile.
Lori Allen,
Grad Student, UMSL
>
> > TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES - editorial from a Canadian
> > news paper
> >
> >
> > > >> America: The Good Neighbor.
> > > >>
> > > >> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
> > > >> recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
> > > >> Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
> > > >> commentator. What follows is the full text of his
> > > >> trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
Record:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for
> > > >> the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least
> > > >> appreciated people on all the earth.
> > > >>
> > > >> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
> > > >> Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
> > > >> Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
> > > >> forgave other billions in debts. None of these
> > > >> countries is today paying even the interest on its
> > > >> remaining debts to the United States.
> > > >>
> > > >> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,
> > > >> it was the Americans who propped it up, and their
> > > >> reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
> > > >> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
> > > >>
> > > >> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
> > > >> United States that hurries in to help. This spring,
> > > >> 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
> > > >> Nobody helped.
> > > >>
> > > >> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
> > > >> billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
> > > >> newspapers in those countries are writing about the
> > > >> decadent, warmongering Americans.
> > > >>
> > > >> I'd like to see just one of those countries that
> > > >> is gloating over the erosion of the United States
> > > >> dollar build its own airplane. Does any other
> > > >> country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing
Jumbo
> > > >> Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
> > > >> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
> > > >> International lines except Russia fly American
> > > >> Planes?
> > > >>
> > > >> Why does no other land on earth even consider
> > > >> putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about
Japanese
> > > >> technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about
> > > >> German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
> > > >> You talk about American technocracy, and you find
> > > >> men on the moon - not once, but several times -
> > > >> and safely home again.
> > > >>
> > > >> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put
> > > >> theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at
.
> > > >> Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and
> > > >> hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them,
> > > >> unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting
> > > >> American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
> > > >>
> > > >> When the railways of France, Germany and India
> > > >> were breaking down through age, it was the Americans
> > > >> who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and
> > > >> the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them
> > > >> an old caboose. Both are still broke.
> > > >>
> > > >> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
> > > >> to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name
> > > >> me even one time when someone else raced to the
> > > >> Americans in trouble? I don't think there was
> > > >> outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
> > > >>
> > > >> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
> > > >> Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
> > > >> kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
> > > >> their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
> > > >> to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
> > > >> over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not
> > > >> one of those.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Stand proud, America!
> > > >>
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> This is one of the best editorials that I have ever
> > > >> read regarding the United States. It is nice that
> > > >> one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of
> > > >> the world share his insight. We are always blamed for
> > > >> everything, and never even get a thank you for the
> > > >> things we do.
> > > >>
> > > >> I hope each of you send this to as many people as you
can
> and
> > emphasize that they
> > > >> should send it to as many of their friends until this
letter
> is sent
> > to every person on the web.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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