Author: leonid
Date: 16:50:27 07/23/99
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On July 23, 1999 at 18:29:28, Paul Richards wrote: >On July 23, 1999 at 17:34:20, Fernando Villegas wrote: > [snip] > >The problem is simply that Americans are uptight about sex. They can >put the most violent trash all over the tele, but time itself would >come to an end before you will see a nude breast. The other thing is >that to an American a joke MUST be clearly introduced as a joke. To >make a joke without making it perfectly clear that it's a joke is a >no-no. Otherwise there will be an awkward episode where the other guy >isn't sure you're joking, and ends up feeling uncomfortable out of >fear of looking stupid. > >But I digress, I'm not bashing Americans, I simply see a great cultural >difference between them and Europeans and most other cultures. So there >are two options: sterilize everything so that not even the most uptight >wanker can complain (except about how sterile it is), or allow some >cultural diversity and people who get offended at every little comment >can piss off. The Americans would probably vote for the first option, >non-Americans would vote for the second. I expect the first option to >win. I would like to have simply no censorship at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only clean sometime the trash comming into the club from all the advertisement, and even this maybe. I like very much all the talking going in this club, as much about chess programming, as about everything else. Even this last discussion I find very useful and interesting. A lot of people probably think like me since I see so many and deep responses comming from all the side. I will just repeat myself at the end: I came from the ex Soviet Union and I hate censorship! Amigo, la Russia esta contigo! Abajo la censura! Privet vsem iz Rosii! Doloy zenzuru!
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