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Television,
Culture
If There Were No TV in America...
(The Exile)
Work is the one acceptable vice in America; people are encouraged to be greedy. TV is the only acceptable escape. In other countries people drink, have affairs, raise children. Americans no longer raise children, because they take too much time away from work. Babies cry while you are trying to iron a shirt for a meeting. They make you come home at eight-thirty, while the guy in the office next to you, who has no children, is ready to stay until nine to impress the boss. Worse, babies smell, they throw up, they ruin the Swedish furniture you worked so hard to buy. A baby -- let's face it -- is a bad career move. So TV is it. People come home from work, sit down, and watch 50 or 60 channels worth of cable television all night long, sometimes nine or ten hours at a time. (From "The Exile: a Moscow-based alternative newspaper...")
(The Exile)
Work is the one acceptable vice in America; people are encouraged to be greedy. TV is the only acceptable escape. In other countries people drink, have affairs, raise children. Americans no longer raise children, because they take too much time away from work. Babies cry while you are trying to iron a shirt for a meeting. They make you come home at eight-thirty, while the guy in the office next to you, who has no children, is ready to stay until nine to impress the boss. Worse, babies smell, they throw up, they ruin the Swedish furniture you worked so hard to buy. A baby -- let's face it -- is a bad career move. So TV is it. People come home from work, sit down, and watch 50 or 60 channels worth of cable television all night long, sometimes nine or ten hours at a time. (From "The Exile: a Moscow-based alternative newspaper...")
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World Population Counts,
Reference
Map: US Black Population by County
(GIS Data Bank)
(GIS Data Bank)
(Pushed to the fringes, it would seem. This chart is based on 1990 census data. )
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4/3/2005; 3:31:58 AM - Lawrence Green
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