Posted by P.C. Ford on 11/04/96 11:47

On Tue, 2 May 2006 12:24:44 +0100, mv@movingvision.uk wrote:

It's our colonialist friend again, I'll get my pith helmet and
jodpurs. there.
>There's no doubt that the colonial period that resulted from the
>geopolitical, economic and military conflicts between primarily France,
>Britain and Spain resulted in all sorts of onerous things.

What's different now is that the American empire includes
England...millions of people with bad teeth...devouring American
culture.
>
>Indeed things got very much worse for the Native Americans, who suffered
>near genocide and theft of homeland by your own people after the
>revolution, on a scale that makes Britain's inequities in this respect
>seem almost benign.

Whatever does this have to do with anything?

>
>There's thousands of white people living in modest Jo'burg homes with
>only ordinary levels of security who have not yet felt compelled to
>leave. As with those sectors of the Los Angeles 'barrios' or the poorer
>neighbourhoods of Atlanta, by far these murders in Jo'burg are focused
>predominately within certain pressurised, dysfunctional and impoverished
>sections of their society. For most visitors to Jo'burg a little
>judicious local knowledge will allow one to function with an acceptable
>degree of safety. Ask the several hundred thousand white families living
>quite normally there today.

It is actually refreshing to hear from old-time limeys like this
fellow...writes well too.

Had a dentist from South Africa, I suppose he knew where the "bad
parts" were in Jo'burg were. Described horrible stuff...he got out.

Our original poster made the right decision. There are some places too
nasty.

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