in article cmmavf$enk$6@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 11/8/04 8:26 AM:

> In fj.life.in-japan E.F.Schelby <schelby@swcp.com> wrote:
>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> 
>>> In fj.life.in-japan E.F.Schelby <schelby@swcp.com> wrote:
>>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> In fj.life.in-japan E.F.Schelby <schelby@swcp.com> wrote:
>>>>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> 
>>>>> You mean where someone tells them they're a failure if they lose?
>>> 
>>>> Nope. That seems to be an American custom.
> 
>>> Really? So why did you teach her all her efforts are in vain?
> 
>> I didn't.
> 
> And yet you insist this is "an American custom".
> 
> Odd...
> 
>> Will you be satisfied with that and quit?
> 
> I was never disssatisfied. I simply think it's odd that one feels all
> one's efforts are in vain simply if one doesn't get one's way...
> 
>>> So, you're raising your daughter in an inferior fashion?
> 
>> I raised her in the true-blue (pun intended) fashion of "all men
>> are created equal." What I avoided was the model of American
>> exceptionalism.
> 
> And yet you labelled her response as "an American custom".
> 
> Odd.

I agree that it seems odd to call regretting not getting her way an
"American custom." Does that mean that the Japanese, Germans, Italians,
French, British, etc don't regret losing?