Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:52:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ivy Yap <yapivy at techemail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>
Despite it being called "the World Science Fiction Convention" or
"Worldcon," it's mostly American (the majority of attendees -- even in
foreign locations) and analogous to baseball's "World Series," which has
*never* left the USA.   It's really the American national convention -- as proven by the substition of a "Nasfic" held in the US whenever the Worldcon does leave the country.
<<<<<

Geez, I suddenly feel like the token Asian at an all-white American party.  You've just made my entire point.  Without participation and involvement from the rest of the world, the Worldcon will remain nothing but the "American National Convention".  Do American SF fans actually want to remain isolated?

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Ivy Yap
yapivy at techemail.com

If you think rejection is hard, try regret.
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