Re: Hedge Fund Clones

[Gassler Robert <rsgassle@xxxxxxxxx>]

My impression from Brussels is that most of the world seems to be more like the Ottoman Empire than like the US. I had a student from Jordan who grew up here. In Brussels she spoke Arabic at home, French on the street, English in class, and Dutch occasionally on the main campus.

She went to Vancouver BC on a visit and came back saying, "wow, they speak the same language all day!"

>> The US is arguably the exception that proves the rule, but the US
>> is really historically unique in material ways.
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>> David Shemano
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>I doubt it! The Ottoman Empire was not significantly different than the US and
>it was more advanced in many ways: for example, not only it was multi-ethnic
>and multi-religous, but also it was multi-lingual. Many of the Ottoman subjects
>spoke two or three languages even at home, among the family.
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>A few years ago I asked Micheal P: What is the American cuisine? For example is
>sushi American, that is, USian, or not, or szechuan beef, or calamari, or veal
>parmigiana?
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>They are as American as they are Japanese, Chinese, Greek or Italian, in my
>view.
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>The same goes for the Turkish cuisine, that is, the Ottoman cousine.
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>Sabri
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