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Old November 27, 2008, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Recurring Villain View Post
There's a difference between not understanding and not being blinded by some delusional sense of national pride. We understand it alright, we just don't follow it.

We're all the same species. A country is just lines in dirt. Considering we have the ability to communicate instantly across the planet and travel anywhere on it in less than 20 hours, racial or nationalistic pride today is really nothing more than a useless relic of the past. We're one global community now. Learn to deal with it.

If he was supposed to represent Japan, they wouldn't have called him 'Sulu'... There is no 'L' sound in Japanese.
Bam. RV pwns again. I'm just going to start quoting his posts without adding any noteworthy response of my own to reflect my concurrence with his statements.
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