Sunday, July 20, 2003
Two out of the blue (or my concept of the blue) questions friday. One, at Paula´s cousin´s house, the oh, you study history discussion, into have you studied Chile´s history. Me: Well, I did a little research into the relationship between Carter, Reagan and Pinochet. Cousin´s roomateÑ something something, Nixon, coup..then, Are you proud of the coup?
I thought he must mean, that was I proud I knew enough history to know about it, because well....yeah. Of COURSE I´m not proud of it.
When I returned to the house, some relations of the family were there, and a woman asks me what I studied . Me:history. HerL So what do you think of Hitler?
I had no IDEA what to say. It occured, given the reasons people give for support of Pinochet, that the German economy´s emergence from crazy depression might have been an appropriate supportive comment. except NOT AT ALL.....and that certainly didn´t even occur at the time. So I just mumbled something about not studying him and left it at that. It wasn´t clear what her opinion was.
I thought he must mean, that was I proud I knew enough history to know about it, because well....yeah. Of COURSE I´m not proud of it.
When I returned to the house, some relations of the family were there, and a woman asks me what I studied . Me:history. HerL So what do you think of Hitler?
I had no IDEA what to say. It occured, given the reasons people give for support of Pinochet, that the German economy´s emergence from crazy depression might have been an appropriate supportive comment. except NOT AT ALL.....and that certainly didn´t even occur at the time. So I just mumbled something about not studying him and left it at that. It wasn´t clear what her opinion was.
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