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Odd, but until this topic of "Foreigners" came up, I never actually thought of anyone on the List BEING a "foreigner," that is, I didn't particularly think of anyone being particularly "American, or "not American." Online, I've had only three ways to identify List-folks.... I either liked them to various degrees, felt ambivalence, or I didn't like them. There has been lots of the former, some of the second, and not many of the latter. Those List members I've met in person I've liked immensely, no matter what country they called "home." Mostly, if I thought of it at all, I guess, just thought of us as one homogeneous mix - with lotsa little personal quirks thrown in - bound together by not only Parkinson's, but by our mutual humanity, friendship and caring. Anybody who didn't fit THAT criteria, I'd probably look at as being "foreign." Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Gail Vass Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 7:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: Calling all foreigners! Doug McCorkle wrote: Let me take this oportunity to: 1.) point out that this list is made possible by the University of Toronto and 2.) thank our gracious CANADIAN hosts for being so generous to all us foreigners in the States. (Gail & Arthur: I meant to give you a gentle ribbing with this message -- please try not to read it as a serious flame.) - Doug =============================================================== Doug, I just have two questions for you. 1. Have you ever tried to get the attention of the Parkinson community? 2. Did you look at the dictionary definition of 'foreigner'? Mine says a foreigner is 'a person from another country'...and since I'm in the US and I was asking for letters from "ANYONE outside of the United States" it would be from another country and therefor foreign to me. The List is not collecting letters, I am and I've only gotten 5 from around the world....and 3 were from Canada! Gail Vass