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April 9th, 2008 issue

American life

Those who think all Czechs want to move en masse to the United States are fooling themselves.
Every Czech I know (and I know many, since I’m a U.S. citizen who has lived legally for eight years in Czech Republic) does not want to go to the “arrogant, ignorant and overindulging” United States.
In general, the good ’ole United States has become the epitome of its own demise. And maybe that is now coming around to bite back.
Most Americans living in Prague/the Czech Republic are illegal. They have been for many years.
As for the lifestyle in the United States, I wouldn’t like to go back to it. It is overspending, owning nothing, borrowing for everything, overindulging in food and soaking up nonculture and being blind to the rest of the world, while thinking, “I am the best.”
This is ludicrous. I hope America wakes up and gets its face back.
Peace, love and unity.
Barry Gilbert
Prague
Olympic Games
About the Olympics: It is you who decides if you’re willing to come or not (“Protests rightly focus on the Olympic Games,” Opinion, March 26–April 1). We don’t care at all.
However, we would see the “Support Tibet” movement as equal to “Support the slavery system abolished in the 1950s” in the United States.
Do you think the Dalai Lama’s Tibet is a utopia without any human sins? Do you think the Czech Republic is now an independent nation instead of a puppet of the United States?
The development of your nation in recent years is eclipsed by China’s economic miracle, which has been created by its own people.
Daniel He
Shanghai, China
I’d just like to say that no politics should belong with sport events. We have the Olympics to remind us to join together under one sky. That means sports, and nothing else!
Richard Cviklovic
Slovakia
The games should be strictly about sports and nothing else.
But the opening ceremony is a kind of political show-off time in itself. Apart from the traditional flame, nothing else has anything to do with sport. I don’t think it would hurt the athletes at all if no one went to the opening ceremony, and I think it would be a good way for the world to silently say, “We’re not happy about the Tibet issue.”
It shouldn’t hurt anyone to do this. I have met people from Tibet, and I have heard about their lives and seen their faces. Maybe some cases are worse than others, maybe some things are exaggerated, but I do not believe that a whole nation of people can entirely invent a problem, and keep on acting like there is a problem, for 20 years.
That just doesn’t make sense.
Marika Reed
Prague


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