[MD] NHS? No thanks

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Ben]
> I take Platt to be an intelligent person and take him at his word that he 
> read the article to mean a certain thing.  I can thus understand his 
> frustration that the article was written in a way such that he misread it.  
> In cases of miscommunication, I think the author and reader share 
> responsibility.  Thus, point 3b--the point I think you're 
> contesting--stands.
> 
> [Case]
> No, Ben. You are still missing the point. Platt reads an article from a
> foreign newspaper, applies his own cultural frame of reference, totally
> misinterprets what was said and wants to blame the publication. A point that
> should leap out from this is that in many respects US and UK culture are
> very similar. Some might claim indistinguishable and yet making this
> assumption can lead to misunderstanding.

Platt and the British coroner, who blamed the NHS for the womans' death,
totally misinterpreted the situation because of a different cultural reference.
Guess the coroner was born and brought up in the U.S. 

> Consider then how much more error results when one tries to apply ones own
> cultural context to a society that is even more dissimilar than ones own. In
> fact for some examples of this look at just about anything Platt has had to
> say about Iraq.

Yes, like Iraq was a wonderful country under Saddam. Ooops. I'm sorry. That's not
me talking. That's Case and his leftist friends.

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