Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[Eric Dunbar]

> > Sure, the American people are responsible for their leaders BUT close to
> > 50% of America didn't vote for Bush in the last election. Americans are
> > to blame, but not ALL Americans.
> 
> I think you forget about the people that didnt voted to anyone, which is
> in the almost all democratic countries the biggest group of population.
> So i guess if you check which porcentage of all the people who has USA
> citizenship and voted Bush it will come down to a rather small number
> ... maybe 15% (i am guessing, i know that last elections in USA had the
> biggest number of votes ever)

The overwhelmning number of democracies actually have > 50% voter
participation rates... of course, in the overwhelming number of
democracies your vote actually does get heard.

> and then, when you say "americans" do you mean too people from canada,
> brazil, mexico, nicaragua, uruguay, haiti etc...? America is a huge
> continent, well you probably know that better than me i live on the
> other side of the atlantic sea.

This is predominately a British thing (appropriate since there are a
lot of Brits on the list given that it is an UK-based distro ;-). They
call the US America. As a Canadian I'd never describe myself as an
"American", or even a "North American" for that matter. Come to think
of it, I highly doubt _any_ (or many) Canadians would describe
themselves as North American -- most likely they'd say they were
European, Asian, Japanese, Scottish, etc. Some might even describe
themselves as Canadian but not too many, not even multi-generation
Canuks (I trace my roots back 10 generations on this continent on one
side, yet I'm Scottish, Dutch & European first and Canadian second
(and, nothing North American)).

Eric.