If Gene meant to be funny with his blatant anti-British slant on his article about flags/colour etc, I fail to see the humour. (Yes, that's how you spell it.)
I am offended particularly by: "Unless you count the British and the Australians, but who counts them?".
Perhaps he thought only Americans read creativepro? Even so, lazy racism like this should not be tolerated.
Jill is correct--I was sloppy. I love the British and I love the Australians. I was simply trying to emphasize the point that once we Americans take something as our own, we tend to dismiss everything that came before and are, as a culture, pretty unaware of the tremendous history of other countries. Sorry if I offended any readers.
Gene
Submitted by GeneGable on Wed, 08/18/2004 - 06:50.
Gene -- Do you collect all this stuff you show? I mean the old political buttons, anti-drug marketing, scuba-divers, easter cards... Where do you get all that stuff? Where do you store it?!
Your writing is always sharp -- the waning of waxing is hilarious, esp to someone with a box of line tape in the closet and visible Xacto scars from two decades ago. (Waxing Nostalgic Over Paste-Up) I've had wax stuck in my hair, hanks of which went through a Wax-Tec before I learned how to be cool around hot wax. All of which explains why I rushed out and bought a Mac. This was before they had hard drives, but that was still better than paste-up!
Your stuff is the best.
They should change the rating system for you. From laugh long and loud instead of strongly agree at the top, to cool! to neutral, to this man is a trip, to this man is not of this world.
Just read the other comments for Red, White and Blue...
On second thought, instead of strongly disagree, maybe the rating point should be, "Gene needs to apologize to _______" with a space to enter the offended party.
I am not going to go as far as Jill as to express outrage at supposed "racist" comments (we are talking nationalities not races here), but I would like to put her reaction in perspective.
I felt something similar to Jill when I read the comment but dismissed it as just yet another American slight, and we are rather used to those.
It is very difficult for Americans to put themselves in other people's shoes for the very reasons evidenced by the original comment in the article. As such it is hard for Americans to understand why many people react to them the way that they do. Oddly enough most Americans I have met have extremely good manners and are very polite, but totally lack any empathy or consideration for anyone outside their own borders.
This comes from deep down, in the way Americans have an excessive patriotism drilled into them from childhood, to an extent that most other countries find extremely embarassing and a modern form of the Jingoism that afflicted the British when they ruled the world.
Most of the rest of the world thinks of the World as the World, not their own particular country, and has a much broader contact with the world outside their own country.
Americans only make up 5% of this planet's population, a good thing to remember next time you consider yourselves as the ONLY ones in the room.
Most Americans I know are compassionate and very much able to put themselves in other people's shoes. I think it is a dangerous and broad generalization to say that Americans lack any empathy or consideration for anyone outside their own borders. Most people that I know (no matter what country they come from) are embarassed by excessive patriotism of any nationality.
Submitted by oakdale_road on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 10:42.
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Bad taste?
If Gene meant to be funny with his blatant anti-British slant on his article about flags/colour etc, I fail to see the humour. (Yes, that's how you spell it.)
I am offended particularly by: "Unless you count the British and the Australians, but who counts them?".
Perhaps he thought only Americans read creativepro? Even so, lazy racism like this should not be tolerated.
My Apologies
Jill is correct--I was sloppy. I love the British and I love the Australians. I was simply trying to emphasize the point that once we Americans take something as our own, we tend to dismiss everything that came before and are, as a culture, pretty unaware of the tremendous history of other countries. Sorry if I offended any readers.
Gene
Thank you
I appreciate your apology, Gene.
Regards
Jill
LOVE Gene Gable's articles!
Gene -- Do you collect all this stuff you show? I mean the old political buttons, anti-drug marketing, scuba-divers, easter cards... Where do you get all that stuff? Where do you store it?!
Your writing is always sharp -- the waning of waxing is hilarious, esp to someone with a box of line tape in the closet and visible Xacto scars from two decades ago. (Waxing Nostalgic Over Paste-Up) I've had wax stuck in my hair, hanks of which went through a Wax-Tec before I learned how to be cool around hot wax. All of which explains why I rushed out and bought a Mac. This was before they had hard drives, but that was still better than paste-up!
Your stuff is the best.
They should change the rating system for you. From laugh long and loud instead of strongly agree at the top, to cool! to neutral, to this man is a trip, to this man is not of this world.
change that rating system, on second thought
Just read the other comments for Red, White and Blue...
On second thought, instead of strongly disagree, maybe the rating point should be, "Gene needs to apologize to _______" with a space to enter the offended party.
Humor is so dangerous.
Easy slights
I am not going to go as far as Jill as to express outrage at supposed "racist" comments (we are talking nationalities not races here), but I would like to put her reaction in perspective.
I felt something similar to Jill when I read the comment but dismissed it as just yet another American slight, and we are rather used to those.
It is very difficult for Americans to put themselves in other people's shoes for the very reasons evidenced by the original comment in the article. As such it is hard for Americans to understand why many people react to them the way that they do. Oddly enough most Americans I have met have extremely good manners and are very polite, but totally lack any empathy or consideration for anyone outside their own borders.
This comes from deep down, in the way Americans have an excessive patriotism drilled into them from childhood, to an extent that most other countries find extremely embarassing and a modern form of the Jingoism that afflicted the British when they ruled the world.
Most of the rest of the world thinks of the World as the World, not their own particular country, and has a much broader contact with the world outside their own country.
Americans only make up 5% of this planet's population, a good thing to remember next time you consider yourselves as the ONLY ones in the room.
re:
Most Americans I know are compassionate and very much able to put themselves in other people's shoes. I think it is a dangerous and broad generalization to say that Americans lack any empathy or consideration for anyone outside their own borders. Most people that I know (no matter what country they come from) are embarassed by excessive patriotism of any nationality.
Good article. It's
Good article. It's refreshing to see an article where a girl admits that a) girls control the dating scene and b) girls often pick guys who "know how they love bags" rather than choose quality bags. I can't tell you how many of my girl-friends say something to the effect of "I don't know what I saw in that jerk!" Stuff like "The Pickup Artist" works...but its because it relies on psychology and manipulation. Not something to emulate, in my opinion.
Girls, give that cute, if not shy and awkward, guy a chance! He might be the one you're looking for!
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