11/11/2004
Cross pollination
iwasthinking
Amazing.
Through generations of cultural cross pollination, we and our allies have gotten a lot from each other. With Japan, we've traded baseball and rock and roll for karaoke and anime. With the British, we got the Beatles and sent back Rap music. The Canadians sent us hockey, and we introduced them to basketball. Most of those trades can be called somewhat equal; the one we've made with the Australians can not. They sent us Crocodile Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter, and we send back the KKK. While I realize the two Croc's are a horrid thing to inflict on someone, even they aren't that bad enough to trade them back the Klan.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1241700.htm
The Australian brach of the Ku Klux Klan has apparently gotten active enough in their army to cause new recruits to leave, and manage the picture in the above article.
So much for stomping out terrorism...
Anyway...i was thinking...
Amazing.
Through generations of cultural cross pollination, we and our allies have gotten a lot from each other. With Japan, we've traded baseball and rock and roll for karaoke and anime. With the British, we got the Beatles and sent back Rap music. The Canadians sent us hockey, and we introduced them to basketball. Most of those trades can be called somewhat equal; the one we've made with the Australians can not. They sent us Crocodile Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter, and we send back the KKK. While I realize the two Croc's are a horrid thing to inflict on someone, even they aren't that bad enough to trade them back the Klan.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1241700.htm
The Australian brach of the Ku Klux Klan has apparently gotten active enough in their army to cause new recruits to leave, and manage the picture in the above article.
So much for stomping out terrorism...
Anyway...i was thinking...
