File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0310, message 134


From: "carole lindholm" <carole_lindholm-AT-ananzi.co.za>
Subject: Re: How it is
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:30:33 +0200


Steve,

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:03:00 +0000
 "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk> wrote:
> I  read this and wondered if anyone else thought it was
> odd to read an email from SA which says "...if I can be
> Irish and then French I could just as well be Danish or a
> dog..." I am wondering at the narrow range of "proper
> names" and whether it is just me that thinks that the
> narrowness is not reflexive of our unreconstructed
> eurocentrism ?

The phrase "if I can be Irish and then French" was a
reference to Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who became a
French citizen. 
 
And I'm hardly eurocentric. Other whites in South Africa,
who still feel somewhat European, complain that their
vision of Europe involves migratory flows of Muslims and
Africans crisscrossing it like blood vessels. And of course
they're horrified by this thought.

I disagree. Personally I think the British government
should open up Sangrette and let those asylum seekers come
pouring in by the millions. Same for the rest of West
Europe. That might be the end of Britain and Western Europe
as we know them, but speaking as a South African, this
would be a good thing, in my opinion.

Carole


 
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