This week's tip:
"Greetings,
Fellow Diplomats"
- Sure I'm proud to be an American.
- But I'm not always proud OF Americans.
- Here we sit, on 4% of the world's dirt, acting
like we own every grain of sand on the planet.
- Are you aware that MOST of our overseas neighbors
consider us loud, boisterous, bossy,
- and prone to negotiate at gunpoint? Well, they
do. Because THAT's what we show them!
- Ever watch a bigshot
- in an airport lounge, barking
commands
- and expecting everyone to laugh at
his dirty jokes?
- What you're witnessing is a person who never
outgrew his "playground bully" status.
- He's not-only too dumb to reflect, he's too
egotistical to learn!
- Ask him politely to suck his thumb for the
reporters.
- Naw - it wouldn't help.
- I was in a REAL "diplomatic" situation
for a few years,
- where it "behooved me" to ignore our
flag being burned.
- Well, I got as close as I could and listened,
- trying vainly to understand these clowns'
positions.
- I finally realized that THEY didn't represent a
majority,
- nor did they appreciate the distaste they were
generating for their cause.
- ( Just don't be the next one I catch burning my
flag - NOW I only represent myself!)
- Consider this incident:
- Tragedies occur all over, all the time. And most
aren't even reported.
- I remember a well-tanned, pretty girl who worked
in a factory in LA in the 1970s.
- And she thought her minimum-wage job was Heaven
itself !
- Turned out, her family had started WALKING here,
from San Salvador a year before,
- fleeing from drug-runners who burned her village.
- Her father was soon captured and shot,
- then later she was forced to watch geurillas rape
& dismember her mother.
- Her only brother made it into Mexico where he was
taken ill,
- and despite her best efforts and prayers he too
died.
- So here she was, an 18-year-old SOLE SURVIVOR who
had MADE IT to the States.
- She was staying with a sympathetic Mexican family
and was looking forward to better times.
- And her PROUD American co-workers considered her
"just another wetback".
- I often wonder, now that she's 40-some, what she
thinks of them -----
-
- The ONLY way to overcome this
sorta crap is to
- provide a BETTER image BY YOURSELF
!
- You don't have to preach, you don't need an
education, just use your head.
- Because nowdays, you are ALWAYS on a diplomatic
mission.
- I remember the day this Spring when I had
encouraged
- my Mom to explore an overseas chat room,
- only to have some IDIOT type her a totally
unwarranted, very rude offer.
- That one idiot not-only spoiled her chat-room
experience,
- he probably convinced her never to visit HIS
country again.
-
- So you're ALWAYS on a diplomatic
mission,
- ESPECIALLY on the Internet!
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