Re: Board 32, from Grattan Endicott

Eric Kehr wrote
> "Georgiana Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

> > I guess that was the point I was making. If the committee had
> > contained (say) a Canadian, a Mexican, an Australian, a South Americsn,
> > and one European, the Italians would have had considerable grounds
> > for disgruntlement.
>
> There is an assumption here that Europeans will be biased in favour of other
> Europeans, and that Canadians and Mexicans would be biased in favour of the
> USA.
>
> I would have thought that there is just as much chance of any bias working
> the other way (because every country's traditional enemy is the country next
> door).

  There was a complaint a few years back because a Committee contained 
too many Americans.  The response was "Anyone who expects a New Yorker 
to agree with someone from San Francisco does not understand us at all!"

  In practice everyone really knows that none of these people show bias 
- until they rule against you.  Then you find some reason if you are 
suspicious minded.

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