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West meets East - good thing or bad thing? It's all about choice!


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ShelleyS
Edited by: Admin  Oct 26, 07, 05:40  #1

Admin I know that we are not supposed to post links but I dont know how to do the whole url thing - but this is such an interesting article I thought it would be rude not not share

For many East Europeans the age of freedom is turning into the worst of times since World War II. Eastern Europe is going through a health crisis of dire proportions: demographers and health officials report rates of death and childlessness on a scale normally seen only in wartime.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981007-1,00.html

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Useful links are surely allowed. Admin


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BubbaWoo
  Oct 26, 07, 05:50  #2

an informative read shelley - thanks for the link

the article dates from 1994 - i wonder how the statistics have changed over the past 13 years, and more so since poland's membership of the eu

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Yogibear
Edited by: Yogibear  Oct 26, 07, 07:30  #3

Its what ever you make of it my friend.


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ShelleyS
  Oct 26, 07, 07:49  #4

Quoting: Yogibear
Its what ever you make of it my friend.


I think you need to read the article.

Quoting: BubbaWoo
an informative read shelley - thanks for the link



Thanks Mr BW - I hadnt noticed how old it was - I just found it interesting to see how the West is such an influence on such life and death matters.


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Yogibear
  Oct 26, 07, 08:11  #5

Quoting: ShelleyS


I think you need to read the article.




My aplogies Shelley I didn't mean to sound flippant and aloof. I have now read through the link and its quite startling to say the least. But as the previous post to mine says it sates from 1994 and I wonder if the statistics have changed since.


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ShelleyS
  Oct 26, 07, 10:53  #6

Quoting: Yogibear
But as the previous post to mine says it sates from 1994 and I wonder if the statistics have changed since.


Apology accpeted :)

I would imagine they have - I dont have time today to check for updated stats but will when I get time -


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Crow
Edited by: Crow  Oct 26, 07, 13:15  #7

Quoting: ShelleyS
West meets East

If we speak about West and East as geographical terms then, OK. But, if we want to point on relations between civilizations we must refuse to accept clishe which is imposet on us.

In fact, Slavs represent last remain of old original native European population. Slavic world is true Western world. Currently- so called West, is in fact product of clash between ancient Slavic and Semitic civilizations in time BC and after.

So, if we were to discuss about West and East, let`s be precise. Slavic contribution to gobal civilization must be admited and honored. And, that final truth, doesn`t minimize contribution of others. Just, we all have our place in history. We have our rights and obligations, our mission


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ShelleyS
  Oct 29, 07, 08:11  #8

Quoting: Crow
If we speak about West and East as geographical terms then, OK. But, if we want to point on relations between civilizations we must refuse to accept clishe which is imposet on us.

In fact, Slavs represent last remain of old original native European population. Slavic world is true Western world. Currently- so called West, is in fact product of clash between ancient Slavic and Semitic civilizations in time BC and after.

So, if we were to discuss about West and East, let`s be precise. Slavic contribution to gobal civilization must be admited and honored. And, that final truth, doesn`t minimize contribution of others. Just, we all have our place in history. We have our rights and obligations, our mission


did you even bother to read the article, it would seem you didnt and just whaffled on like a prat again....


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Puzzler
Edited by: Puzzler  Oct 30, 07, 03:06  #9

Somehow, I find the (old) revelations hard to believe. Well, so the Time hack describes the alleged health situation in 1994, presumably. What about today? Shouldn't we rather look at the health situation in the US, e.g. the dreaded public hospitals? Also, the look can be extended elsewhere, e.g. to some countries in Europe that used to be on the American side of the Iron Curtain, where e.g. patients die because nurses don't bother to wash hands....

The title of the posting alludes to Kipling's old poem where by 'East' he simply means Asia. So according to you, Shelleys, the countries mentioned in the article lie in Asia? :)

Time magazine, like practically 100 % of media in America, is a bunch of compulsive liars, producing crude political propaganda. And they have been negatively prejudiced towards Poland and Polish people for ages. I don't believe even one word of what these nasty psychopaths scribble.

Hm, today the Cold War propaganda dreadful and hateful images of Poland and other countries from 'the other' side of Iron Curtain - the images that the American and other hacks have been feeding their gullible audiences with for ages - are being shaken, due to the fact that people from America and elsewhere can come freely to these countries and see the reality there.

Is this why ShelleyS has brought in the old Time rubbish?

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ShelleyS
  Oct 31, 07, 04:23  #10

Quoting: Puzzler
Is this why ShelleyS has brought in the old Time rubbish?


get help please - my post was about Eastern Europe, not Asia and article covered a lot of points


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Magdalena
  Nov 3, 07, 03:28  #11

I graduated in 1993 and had my kids in 1991 and 1995. Somehow I did not see people dropping dead all around me. It was a time of general optimism and of a feeling that the sky's the limit. Dunno.


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isthatu
  Nov 3, 07, 08:43  #12

Poland was lucky,no one can deny that the situation was far different in places such as Romania ,Albania etc where complete collapse of those countries was only narrowly averted.


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Magdalena
  Nov 3, 07, 10:04  #13

I don't think it's a good idea to compare such countries as Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Hungary with Romania or Albania - even when lumped together as Iron Curtain countries, their situation was vastly different.
It's like comparing pre-EU Portugal with West Germany.
And Russia is a whole different story altogether.


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