Comparative Sociology
posted by Dave Hoffman
Some worry that American political culture is hopelessly depraved, bitter, and nasty. Those pessimists’ horizons are, I think, too narrow. Take, for example, New Zealand, where one member of parliament giving the finger to another in live session was merely the fourth worse public insult of the year, according to a recent poll.
I will say, that any country who puts this dolphin-hurts-woman story as the lead of a major paper is worth visiting.
(Sorry, for what it is worth, about the low posting ratio. I’ve been very busy. Hopefully, the tedium of grading will motivate me to post more this week.)
December 26, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Posted in: Weird
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Patrick S. O'Donnell - December 27, 2006 at 8:51 am
You should correspond with Kevin Jon Heller over at Opinio Juris, as he’s fallen in love with New Zealand since locating there to teach as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. His most recent post on the topic: Reason #344 to Love New Zealand
by Kevin Jon Heller
Ordinary citizens greet the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, as “Helen.”
http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1166335106.shtml
Patrick S. O'Donnell - December 27, 2006 at 8:51 am
You should correspond with Kevin Jon Heller over at Opinio Juris, as he’s fallen in love with New Zealand since locating there to teach as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. His most recent post on the topic: Reason #344 to Love New Zealand
by Kevin Jon Heller
Ordinary citizens greet the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, as “Helen.”
http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1166335106.shtml
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