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mk, so i just scheduled for fall.

Linguistics 500: Phonetics
Anthropology H202: Cultural Anthropology
Biology H115: Uh, Biology
Japanese 101.51: Japanese, Individualized track

it's at 20 hours right now, but it could vary depending on Japanese.

now time to try to read 160 pages by 1230 tomorrow and finish my historical linguistics homework

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swoot

"For the final paper, I will undertake a paleolinguistic study of the Southeast Asian proto-culture of speakers of proto-Katuic. I have already obtained Ilia Peiros’ Katuic Comparative Dictionary (1996) and Paul Sidwell’s The Katuic Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon (2005), as well as various archaeological and anthropological resources, towards this end."

This should be a lot of fun. I love historical linguistics.

And I will respond to the comment in the last post by commenting in the last post... I've just been pretty busy recently.

Oh, and I've got an interview with the Honors Collegium on Tuesday... :D

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"[The security for civil rights] consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects."

--James Madison, The Federalist No. 51

I had an idea today in class. We were watching a film about the impoverishment of Jamaica through manipulative economic techniques by America, and the former Prime Minister of Jamaica said that if American government had tried to do the same things to its own economy, it would have been voted out of office in short order. He's right.

Although American revolutionists cited taxation without representation as a principle cause of revolution, the American colonies had the second lowest taxes of any colonies in the world when they declared independence. In fact, the new taxes that ostensibly prompted the violent revolution had been imposed because Great Britain was actually losing money to the colonies. The extent of America's economic control of other nations essentially amounts to taxation without representation, except it is worse. Other nations are marginalized and impoverished because of manipulative "aid" loans.

We should give citizens of other countries some form of vote for the American government, as they feel its effects profoundly and in ways that the American voter can't. Indeed, I suspect that the desparation that drives rational individuals to terrorism will dissolve when violence is not the only possible course of action. Moreover, socio-cultural boundaries will be more easily transcended. At the moment, only White Christians (and usually Straight Males as well) have a chance of making any sort of serious run for a powerful office. Making our government directly accountable to foreign peoples and cultures will be invaluable.

This is also the natural extension of the political philosophy of checks and balances not only in the government set-up but also in the electorate that has underlied America since its inception.

Details remain to be considered.


Am I completely crazy? Do not consider practicalities of actually convincing people to go along with this. And before you answer negatively, consider carefully whether your reaction is based on "patriotism," also called nationalist bigotry and prejudice.

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