nelson
01-23-2009, 07:17 AM
Here's an entertaining debate over deaths on the Titanic.
The article below states:Frey claims that many Britons lost their lives because they were courteous, while "uncultured" Americans were more likely to push ahead in line.
The UK's Daily Mail newspaper ate it up when Swiss researcher Bruno Frey told them, "The British were much more aware of the social norms at the time. They would have been more likely to stand in a queue and wait their turn for boarding the lifeboats than Americans."
Everyone loves a story that denigrates those nasty Americans!
Well, now the indignant Americans dispute this claim. In this article American Karen Kamuda even breaks out the R word!!!!"It sounds like post-modern revisionist history. To say that Americans act a certain way and the British act a certain way is racist."Ok, so none of this matters.
But it's pretty funny.
Picture the Swiss telling a British newspaper, 'it was those pushy Americans rushing to the lifeboats first.'
Then read the ridiculous American response, 'you racist.'
:rofl
Claims of 'Polite' Titanic Victims Disputed
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481690,00.html
The article below states:Frey claims that many Britons lost their lives because they were courteous, while "uncultured" Americans were more likely to push ahead in line.
The UK's Daily Mail newspaper ate it up when Swiss researcher Bruno Frey told them, "The British were much more aware of the social norms at the time. They would have been more likely to stand in a queue and wait their turn for boarding the lifeboats than Americans."
Everyone loves a story that denigrates those nasty Americans!
Well, now the indignant Americans dispute this claim. In this article American Karen Kamuda even breaks out the R word!!!!"It sounds like post-modern revisionist history. To say that Americans act a certain way and the British act a certain way is racist."Ok, so none of this matters.
But it's pretty funny.
Picture the Swiss telling a British newspaper, 'it was those pushy Americans rushing to the lifeboats first.'
Then read the ridiculous American response, 'you racist.'
:rofl
Claims of 'Polite' Titanic Victims Disputed
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481690,00.html