El martes, 24 de abril de 1990 a la(s) 14:48:57 UTC-5, victor.m.mendoza-grado escribió:

In article <23...@cs.yale.edu> Juan Carlos Guzman writes:

In article <14...@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Victor.M.Mendoza Grado writes:

In article <3333.2...@wums.wustl.edu> weste...@wums.wustl.edu writes:

Si no fuese por lo del Mexican Almanac de jour estariamos aun peores.

I guess everyone is busy or at least busy with their own
country's mailing list. The fact that the group is supposed to cover
aspects from more than one country or even one language makes people
to concentrate in their own cultural area of interest. Maybe we
should break down this group a bit further, by latitude, by country,
etc.
think that the frequency of the Almanac (daily!) leaves the
impression in other people that too much Mexican *publicity* is
invading the net, hence inhibiting them to contribute, discuss, etc.
(Perhaps nationalistic jelousy? Unfortunately, I've seenn some of
that a few times).

Yo soy venezolano, y no me siento nada identificado con el almanaque >mejicano. Ni lo leo. Sencillamente lo tengo en mi `KILL' file.

Fine and dandy with me, your own right.

Me pregunto si un calendario LATINOAMERICANO no es mejor?

"mejor" for what? for you? I don't see anything wrong with all sorts
of almanacs coexisting with all types of postings about Latin America.
In fact, when I began posting the M. A. I was kind of expecting that
maybe similar or even better things (;-)would come out of the group with
the purpose of remembering the past to which L-A. is very much linked.
I would encourage anyone to post about his/her own country and I'm
sure many others, including from other countries, would like to
read about. However, I'd support the idea of creating a L-A. Almanac
and I'd be glad to contribute. I'd love to read from other countries,
even from other galaxies. :-)

Por ejemplo,
cuantos saben que el 19 de Abril de 1810 (Jueves Santo) fue el dia en
que se proclamo la independencia venezolana en el cabildo de Caracas?

By *posting* it, you just increased the number of people who know it.

El calendario mejicano para ese dia (Mexican Almanac for Apr. 19, 1990) >dijo lo siguiente:

Day of the Indigenes

1572
Fr. Pedro de Gante (1486-1572) dies in Mexico. He was the

What's the point? Sorry to disappoint you if you expected something
else.

Nuestros paises tienen muchas fechas *importantes* que pueden ir en
un almanaque comun. Asi, todos los latinoamericanos nos sentiriamos >motivados a leer dicho almanaque. Y los interesados en algun pais >latinoamericano tambien se van a sentir motivados, y se presentaran
fechas que son mas significativas en nuestra historia.

And who decides what's *important*? I know some people who will argue
that the Day of the Indigenes is really important and that the work
done by Fr. Pedro de Gante in Mexico shouldn't be forgotten. Likewise,
other people might not find important the official independence date of
a given country. It is a subjective matter, but fortunately we don't
have to worry about it. Anybody can post freely and others are free
to love it or leave it, with a fuzzy range in between.
Finally, I'd like to see an almanac for each country (it would be easier
for your 'KILL' file too:-) but I'd support the idea of a global almanac
for Latin America wholeheartedly. You won't create a traffic problem
in the net, believe me.

Juan Carlos Guzman.

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