Thread: Do Americans have it better?
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Old 07-23-2009, 08:15 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl View Post
I was shocked to discover that we were not #1. It went against everything I was taught to believe, and I'm sure my comments will raise the ire of many Americans here in MR. (I'm sorry. It's not my intention to offend. It's my intention to state facts.) I can't close my eyes to what I see every day. There is a very big world outside of the US that impacts every single economic, ecological, and political issue of our future.
May God have mercy on your soul if DixieGal's hometown lost another soldier today!

On a serious note though... I think the problem is that the anglophone publishing industries have a fairly insular focus. Yes, there is a lot of foreign stuff available in absolute terms... but, in fact, lots of considerably smaller national publishing industries out there give access and focus to a wider breadth of international literature at the expense of a thousand new cookie-cutter novels by unknown and untalented authors every week.

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