Received: from hotmail.com (f91.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.91]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1PMQjP20075 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:26:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:26:41 -0800 Received: from 66.55.6.166 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:26:41 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.55.6.166] From: "Susan Ryan" <susanefl@hotmail.com> To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8632] Re: Re: War as a cross-cultural issue Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:26:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F916OuyyFfXHBfLe6Mh0000d4f0@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2003 22:26:41.0313 (UTC) FILETIME=[F8396910:01C2DD1C] Status: O Content-Length: 2026 Lines: 57 I believe it is both. >From: "Lalyre, Yvonne L" <YLalyre@doe.mass.edu> >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8631] Re: War as a cross-cultural issue >Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:11:51 -0500 (EST) > >America is a continent, not a country. >Yvonne >Mass. DOE. >-----Original Message----- >From: Ujwala Samant [mailto:usamant@comcast.net] >Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:22 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8612] Re: War as a cross-cultural issue > > >I think there is a spectrum of knowledge of politics, history and geography >amongst students in America. While most know a little bit (or a lot) about >where their ancestors came from, international geography and history are >not >things they know very much about. An example, using the first Persian Gulf >war. Students in a (primarily upper classmen and graduate students) class >on >cross-cultural psychology at Syracuse University wanted to know "What a >Kuwait was?" when war was declared. They were even more shocked to know >that >their country was not helping create or defend a democracy, rather handing >a >kingdom back to one of the most spoiled and detested Emirs of the Arab >world, all to keep their petrol prices down. Having lived here (America) >for >long periods of time since 1984, I have observed that the one thing that >each conflict that America has been involved in has done for this country >as >a whole is, improved a knowledge of world geography. > >As far as God Bless America for being the country where a government >sponsored listserv serves as a forum for discussion, please be aware that >this also happens in most of Europe, in Asian countries such as India, etc. >Perhaps we need to brush our own knowledge of the world? Regularly? > >regards >Ujwala Samant > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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