Re: [seul-edu] Site@School V2.1 betatesters needed

[Al Dow <dowa@hs.cameron.k12.mo.us>]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:33, Robert G. Rittenhouse wrote:
> Harry McGregor wrote:
> 
> >Ok, I wanted to stay out of this, but I can't.
> >
> >On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 05:35, Hans Paijmans wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Why fight the monopoly of Microsoft if we surrender without comment
> >>to the American monopoly on education and culture?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Who says that America has a monopoly on education and culture? 
> >Personally, and this comes from living in the US most of my life, I feel
> >quit the opposite.
> >  
> >
> Hear, hear. Frankly, except for some universities the U.S. education 
> system is third rate. As for culture -- I thought the Japanese were 
> taking over? :)
> 
> One of the more interesting things about working with Open Source SW is 
> the multinational aspect. Here I am running software from Finland, 
> Sweden, Germany, Russia and probably a few other places. I try to point 
> this out to my students from time to time (U.S. students tend not to 
> think much about the rest of the world).
> 
> BTW: those of us not born in the U.S. (I'm Canadian) do dislike being 
> lumped in with the U.S. through the use of the  term "American". :)

I wondered when someone would say that about the term "American".  There
is a whole hemisphere of "American".