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To: Gunslingr3
Actually, that write-up is less politically incorrect than I expected. The writer seems to attribute the f***ed up situation in Haiti to some national trauma over the last few hundred years. I'm afraid I'd attribute it more to cultural norms that go back much more than a few hundred years.
10 posted on 03/05/2004 1:40:54 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark
I'm afraid I'd attribute it more to cultural norms that go back much more than a few hundred years.

I saw that there was a reference to a "colonial" city --- it always matters what country did the colonization, it seems that former British colonies --- like us and Canada and some others do okay.

11 posted on 03/05/2004 2:07:14 PM PST by FITZ
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To: 68skylark
Hey, my mom had a '64 Skylark - red, convertible. God what a boat...
12 posted on 03/05/2004 2:11:00 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: 68skylark
Not really it was the French that used Haiti as a slave outpost and a dumping ground. That's a tragedy.
18 posted on 03/05/2004 3:30:32 PM PST by cyborg (In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
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