----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Thu, 9 Mar 1995, Yves Lever wrote: > A suggestion: for us, the non-American, could the correspondant identify > the city from which they write. The indication YYY university or ZZZ > college are not enough... > Why this? It sounds like an essentializing move to me: I am from there, therefore I can say this as a--say, Israeli. Also, writing from a city does not mean that the wroter is from that city, necessarily, so what purpose would this information serve? But if you need to know, I am writing from New Haven, CT (USA) and yet I am one of *us, the non Americans,* born and raised in Milano, Italy. Europe, that is! And I abhor eurocentrism despite my cultural ties to Europe. That's why I believe that declaring one's own city--so to speak, would not say anything about our beliefs. Gloria Monti