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Havachatwithhexy... 2-Jun-2005 At 9:39:45 PM HEX

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Ah-hem ... phew ! ................ whatablast !!!

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RK
2/06/2005
>Yes M8 and Romfrantic. I agree with you totally that the reasons for this tragedy are >unfathomable within our own cultural context...but in other cultural contexts the >concepts of "honour" and "shame" are totally different to ours...and very real. I lived >and worked and travelled in many parts of the world for many years and never came to >even vaguely understand the definitive and ultimate nature of "honour" in many non->Western cultures.
>In it's own way, this is not all that different to Palestinian kids blowing themselves to >pieces on buses or Korean kids committing suicide because they fail their exams. >Failure is not an option.
>I shake my head in sadness...

C'mon you intellectual-midgets ... get real !! --- we are living in a global culture/village/blah/etc ... the ' honour ' thing is actually very strong in Australian-youth-culture, tho it tends to be a volitile mix of self,family,peer-group honour , not just ' family ' honour as youz seem to be narrowly-ignorantly convincing yourselfz,vsv 'other cultures' ... the ' hidden' , horrendous stats on youth sewerside in both rural&urban Aus' point to etc,etc,etc ... why shake your head in sadness, grass-hopper ? ... itz simple : '...Palestinian kids blowing themselves to pieces...', look forward to death the same way Aussies look forward to the week-end ...

"CARN THE SAINTS !!!"

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