<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 09.08.2011, at 19:38, Peter Korsten wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>Well said and good points, Peter!</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">So why, you may ask, aren't there major riots in the USA every day of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>the week? Well, that's a good question. Private gun ownership might have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>something to do with it, and let's face it, certain areas are best<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>avoided at all costs. (South Central, Watts, Compton, Texas.)<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>I was discussing exactly this question after we walked around New York today with my girlfriend and our landlord here.</div><div><br></div><div>She (the landlord) told us that amazingly people slowed down and became friendly in New York after 9/11. </div><div><br></div><div>This pointed us to the idea that having an outside enemy and cultivating that animosity the best you can, gives you a bonding on the inside that may be able to postpone riots like the ones in the UK.</div><div><br></div><div>and please don't write me off as someone blaming the riots on stupid multinational corporations. I feel it's much more complicated than that...;)</div><div><br></div><div>Kai</div><div><br></div></body></html>