Re: RC: Observations and apologies

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/11/01 12:58:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tracey@tbt.co.za writes:


> Just a casual observation : I can't help noticing the different reactions 
> which I see among Americans, to those I see among South Africans and 
> Europeans.  You guys are very aware of your constitutional rights, and that 
> has come across strongly in the arguments I've seen on Ridecamp, both in 
> this debate and in others regarding rules being imposed.  I think we all 
> tend to be a little more used to interference from outside agencies, and 
> have a tendency to be more accepting of it.   It's just a difference of 
> approach - Americans tend to fight the imposition of a rule with which they 
> disagree, we just ignore the fact that it has been imposed 


Excellent observation.  And I believe you are very right about this.  
Sometimes I wonder what the rest of the world thinks of us Americans, but 
even if I knew, we couldn't, or wouldn't change.  We are what we are, just as 
the rest of the world is.  Not necessarily better, just different.  How I 
wish all peoples would adhere to the rule of "live and let live."  Why must 
anyone try to impose his rules, his beliefs, on everyone else?  And it's been 
going on for centuries.....  Very sad.

Barbara