[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
> 
>> "Peter Ansell" wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> that situation screams the remains of british imperialism
>>> through and through?
>>>    
>>>
>> Postage stamps come in two kinds: British stamps, in sets, at the
>> beginning of the album, and foreign ones all jumbled up at the back.
>> Any gibbon can tell you that...
>>
> Gibbons represents a particularly British form of monkey business.
> 
> U. S. made albums put the U. S. stamps at the beginning of the album.  
> These albums are regularly sold in Canada.  When he buys such an album 
> in looseleaf format a Canadian collector's first act will be to refile 
> that section under the letter "U".
> 

I don't have one myself, but I imagine that Australian stamp albums have
the Australian stamps at the front...

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