On 8/4/2010 7:20 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Whit Blauvelt a écrit :
So is the notion that "help your neighbor" is more Middle Eastern and "dog eat dog" more, what, American? The Middle East currently has Al Qaeda, Hizbolla, Hamas, the Taliban, the IDF ... all embracing a philosophy for which "dog eat cog" would be too kind a label. I'm sure from some perspectives the same thing can be said of US and NATO forces in the area.
I'm Austrian and I live in a small village in South France. I'm on excellent terms with my neighbour, who comes from a small village in Morocco. Sometimes, we help each other out to borrow salt, milk, flour, pepper or some other ingredient we forgot to buy in town, twelve kilometers away.
I've read through a few messages of Mr Hadi Motamedi, and his attitude seems to be more like: hey, man, can you please come over to my flat and cook my dinner?
Aren't we all pretty comfortable with using thousands of man-hours of other people's work for free? And, his posts are a tiny percentage of this thread and I can't see where anyone else has added much useful content either, nor do I see much point in bringing up ethnicity.