cultural stereotypes

[Maryna Vinarska]

Thank you professor!
When I check my e-mail (I "perelistyvaiu" messages)I
sometimes don't pay any attention to who the authour
is, when these are messages from SEELANGS. When I
started reading you messages I was surprised, because
it is not what I usually see... Voila! It turned out
to be you! Thank you!
Talk to you later. I can't check my e-mail regularly.
So, today I found 96 messages in my mailbox. I have to
go through all of them.
Maryna.
--- Rodney Patterson <krylya at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I was shocked to see Professor Rosset accused of
> "supporting and circulating
> cultural stereotypes" when in fact she was proposing
> a poetry panel.  I
> think that some of us get "trigger happy" with
> email; it is so easy to fire
> off a few angry words electronically in answer to
> someone else's email that
> sometimes we forget to study exactly what it is
> we're blowing off steam
> about.  In olden days, when one had to hunt up a
> pen, paper, stamp and an
> envelope, carry a letter to a post office or box,
> etc., one usually had time
> to cool off and think twice.  To comment judiciously
> and fairly on others'
> messages now requires more discipline and restraint.
>
> I'm sure that most of us who are at least minimally
> fluent in Russian and
> have spent more than a month or two getting used to
> cultural differences,
> are easily annoyed by people who, having once fallen
> afoul of a bad-tempered
> clerk, a thief, etc., make ridiculously unfair
> generalizations about Russia.
>   It seems to me, incidentally, that the original
> cautionary letter was not
> blameworthy; one needs to take the same precautions
> in any big city.
>
> Most of my memories of my considerable time in
> Russia and the very fine
> people I knew there are so strongly positive that I
> can hardly wait to
> return.
>
> Rodney L. Patterson
> State University of New York at Albany
>
>
>
>
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