Received: from host01.hargray.net (host01.hargray.net [64.53.6.211]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1OFEjP07747 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:14:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from Default (dyn-pool4-34.hargray.net [64.203.195.34] (may be forged)) by ptvlcblt014.hargray.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1OFEeq21273 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:14:40 -0500 Reply-To: <criley@lowcountryliteracy.org> From: "Cindi Riley" <criley@lowcountryliteracy.org> To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8585] RE: War as a cross-cultural issue Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:13:45 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c2dc17$546ec7e0$6501a8c0@Default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <007201c2db13$85f3bc80$09150785@fedu.fukuiu.ac.jp> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Status: O Content-Length: 2220 Lines: 56 Your students want to know why the U.S. goes around attacking people all the time? Do they study the history of Japan during the 20th century? I have great reservations re: the present action being contemplated, but I do know if we really wanted the oil in Iraq we could have had it long ago. Yes, the U.S. makes many mistakes, but we don't go around attacking people all the time. ******************** Cindi Riley Assistant Director Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry 1403 Prince St. Beaufort, SC 29902 phone 843-525-6658 fax 843-521-1945 criley@lowcountryliteracy.org www.lowcountryliteracy.org -----Original Message----- From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Charles Jannuzi Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8579] War as a cross-cultural issue Well here I am, an American in Fukui, Japan, and I have EFL students asking me, Why does the US attack everyone all the time? Why has war become almost an annual event? What do I say? My country right or wrong? That American's unsurpassed power somehow gives it the moral right to decide who lives and who dies? Do I get indignant and tell my students they are talking 'crap'? My students right here in Fukui City can go ask their grandparents if they want to hear real memories of what war actually means. The entire city was incinerated, and the forested hill in the center became one giant charnel. I walk there every week among the trees and look at the thousands upon thousands of gravestones that show life after life barely lived and then snuffed out. Indignation is cheap. I don't think of their questions as attacks. I tell them what my views are, and they actually appear thankful that not all Americans think like the current administration does. I suggest some Americans I know review what freedom of speech means. They might start with the recent articles of John Pilger, an Australian. Written in a plain English that most federal emergency management bureaucrats can't touch. You might also ask why is it that such blunt journalism makes up less than 1% of what is published and almost none of it in the mainstream press in the US. Charles Jannuzi Fukui, Japan
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