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    typical yanks

    So true! I kept waiting for the "world news" to come on... but they pretty much don't have anything from other parts of the world, unless it's about US foreign policy. I quite like Dr Phil's saying: "You wouldn't care so much what people think of you if you realised how seldom they did."
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    typical yanks

    I don't know that "they" do. I think that if there are a few people on the internet making such accusations - and I bet you can find Icelandic people who hate Mongolians, somewhere on the internet! - it makes for a good headline in the media. Just as we don't want the Indians to hear of some...
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    typical yanks

    I was saying that would be their logic, not that I thought it had any merit. ;) Yes, I agree. One has to draw a line in the sand somewhere.
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    typical yanks

    Wow, where to start pulling that apart? 1) I'm not aware of any large scale/mainstream call for compensation by African-Americans, anyway. 2) Those calling for compensation would be doing so on the basis that their ancestors were enslaved and made to work for no wages, moreso than being...
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    typical yanks

    lizzie, but I can't help but think you're extrapolating from a media report about a few anonymous Americans on the internet, to making generalisations about "the Americans" (nearly 300M of them), and your conclusion is that it's offensive for "them" to extrapolate from our KFC ad and conclude...
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