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echo: fidonews
to: DAVID DRUMMOND
from: JANIS KRACHT
date: 2016-04-15 21:23:00
subject: Australia vs. Oceania

> On 16/04/2016 5:29 AM, 1:261/38 wrote:
>>>> "Democracy in America" doesn't ring a bell with you it seems.

>>> Why should it?

>> The title clearly shows someone not from this country using the term
>> America for this nation.

>>> Have *you* read anything but the title?

>> I would not have mentioned it if I had not read it.

> More than one person in the free world refers to "September 11" when
> referencing the WTC incident - even though that method of displaying dates is
> peculiar to USA (influenced places).

People in the America use a number of diffent styles to display dates.  Not one
of them are more correct than another.  They are just different.

> Even on the news here they refer to that one day as "September 11" when the
> other 364 days of the year are 12th September etc.

Who cares?  Type it as you will.  Makes no difference.

> The US media infiltrates the whole world, some of it wears off. It does not
> make it correct though.

There is no "correct".

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