European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i am desperate to know the truth and i am sure you will be Able to track it please Check with everyone who might be knowledgeable on the it has kept me up i have been told by three people that Collagen is made from aborted my sources Are an a Beauty con and my neighbor who works in a Ive spent hours in stores where cosmetics Are checking the ingredients printed on the jars and Collagen is used in Many shampoos and it must be very expensive because the prices of the products that contain Collagen Are awfully it Breaks my heart to think that the Little hands and feet of murdered babies Are being ground into powder to make women More is this True or not sleepless in dear Florence there is not a shred of truth to that Collagen is used in some it is Hydrolysed animal protein that conies from leftovers at the the the Beauty consultant and your neighbor Are spreading unadulterated Gar Tell them so and get some dear Ann Landers so Many without giving it much automatically leave their entire estates to their our parents have their Homes paid for and have planned for a secure retirement while we Are still paying off College Loans and raising our children in rented apart working second jobs to make ends meet and struggling to save the payment on our first my Point is while not meaning to detract from our parents hard work and a bequest made to us at this Point in our lives would be much More meaningful than a bequest to our my parents but obviously we cannot discuss this somewhat delicate subject with i Hope seeing this letter in your column might give some grandparents second thoughts and Lead them to give their attorneys a thanks for your grateful grandson dear grandson hold the you might not feel like expressing gratitude when you hear what i have to i am not going to ask grandparents to pass Over financially secure children and leave their Money to grandchildren who Are struggling to pay off College Loans and make Down payments on the old folks May be a lot smarter than you nobody bought Homes for and ill bet nobody bought your parents a there is a tremendous amount of satisfaction in making it on your i know too Many Young people whose lives have been wrecked because of inherited their grandparents and parents would have done them a favor had they left them a modest sum and Given the rest to if tragedy such As a catastrophic i say help the kids by All but if they Are Able to make it on their own let them do nobody Ever drowned in his own reminder All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be we do not read unsigned but we will withhold your name on request and protect your All letters Are subject to americans and their linguistic efforts defended As a former culturally integrated peace corps Volunteer in a military town during the Vietnam i read with interest the letter in the stars and stripes concern ing linguistic in my like most it goes both More an infinitude of gis who want to learn German Are often frustrated by army restrictions that offer no food or rent assistance for single soldiers who wish to live off and no tuition assistance for Colleg degree sol Diers who wish to take a German class at the College if that Soldier wishes to study on his own beyond the 20hour head Start he is liable to find his local language lab does not have the army Gateway tapes in they Are available from Monterey at a Good but allow several months for conversational classes Are indeed often cancelled for Lack of but in addition to adding credence to the writers assertion that americans Are Lazy these cancellations also remove the most convenient Lan Guage learning resource from those who would take advantage of there May be some truth to the writers assertion that americans Are Lazy when they dont study a hos country based on my peace corps experience it is very difficult to escape even when the language Barrier is Here in Germany i Learned Early on that germans would usually rather speak English to an american than gauge what level of German that american can Deal and is that perhaps German laziness i Only know i usually speak English first after 12 months of being Here in unless i want to play games with the Ger i Only wish i was Good enough to get them Back into but they usually even when i could handle the for what it is one of the Best deals in the army is the Monterey language a Catalon of instructional including programs for some 30 is available by sending a Check for made put to treasurer of the United mail it to defense Lan Guage foreign language attn Presidio of Monte 93940 allow two months for the Catalon and two to six months for anything prices seem to be the Best available any i dont expect that the army will change much in this but it does seem that it could change a few such As making their own German tapes available in the language labs in Germany and making a policy decision that learning a hos country language is important enough to Grant Tui Tion assistance to those who Are willing to study the hos country 4 James Jouppi Germany it seems that the writer has overlooked the fact that the United states is the worlds melting by melting pot i mean that the United states is a Complex society that has been formed through the immigration of people from All Over the which a lot More than we can say for most of the other nations on this one of the key elements that differentiates us from other that americans is that we have successfully integrated hundreds of ethnic origins into our whether they have been his Blacks or any other one can perhaps the greatest attribute that the United states has is that we have not asked any particular ethnic group to give up what they came to the United states Rath we have merely chalked up their customs and traditions in our we have Inte grated their customs into our society proved that one did not have to give up what he had in order to become an Ameri and that includes in my the United states population is extremely Strong in the Field of we do not come anything close to resembling the ugly american syn drome with which we Are so often in no other country can you find so Large a population of who As a can speak such a diversity of this is one of the reasons that the United states has had the ability to act As Media Tor in times of International crisis among disputing Many americans Are proud of their As new York City demonstrates in the Celebration of its Patricks Day or its observances of the passover or sukkot am a mexican american and speak Spanish and can More than get by in 1 Learned Spanish before i Learned while 1 picked up the italian on my i am proud of where 1 came from san Antonio and so were my i was surprised to find while i was studying in Mexico City during my College that my Spanish was better than a lot of mexi in both the Barrio and grammatically taught Spanish of the Here in Germany there Are Many americans who speak German and Are Able to translate for other americans who do my German is not thus 1 must find help from other americans who can interpret for when we go to i do the there Are a lot of germans who could travel to Spain and not speak Span on the same there Are a lot of spaniards who do not speak this is what makes americans so Strong in the International neither the germans nor the mexicans have impressed me with their English my Point is that English is a common Bond that we americans and though it is Bur first it does not mean As we Are limited to Only our american society is far More com plex than most other countries populations it is my through intensive that Many europeans think that All there is to being an Ameri can is speaking and that there is no Content in our they could not be farther from the we Are a society that is ethnically Strong and diverse and we Are very of what we i Challenge those individuals who feel my Point is incorrect to find out for themselves just How diverse our american society Rocky Gallardo Germany by what authority do you Lay Blanket insults on americans and could you not have quoted More recent linguistic Faux Pas your quote about president Carter was particularly inappropriate As it was the translator who was in not i grew up speaking my parents Lan Guage since this is also the National language of the United i was denied Access to a second although i at claimed to be speaking both English and pen pals i am a 20yearold English lady who would like some american serve remembers As pen my interests Are movies and any Type of Karen Attree 5 Selborne Avenue Manor London e12 5np England i like some american service members As pen i am 22 years old and my interests Are playing any Type of music and watching any Type of Donna Webb 48 Bisson Road London e15 2ro England i request that my name be added to your pen pal i am 31 years old and enjoy activities from collecting Flowers and hiking to re Olla Yang 149 Vicente Locsin Dumaguet City Negros Philippines i am a single 18vearokl who would like to be included in your pen pal please add my name to your pen pal Ann Coroama nor eco Dumaguet City Negros 6501 1 travelled to Europe three times under my own steam As a tourist before Uncle Sam sent my husband and me the culture Shock was but when in we signed up for German several weeks we dropped we knew How to conjugate in German the past perfect tense of the verb to have but we still didst know How to order a restaurant or shop in a store on the i was i worked with germans who were helpful and patient with my at tempts at German and 1 Learned enough to make myself if the person on the other end was willing to that was seven years 1 still remember my but the Superb German school system defeats my attempts arc met with kindly Conde if not outright and a perfectly phrased reply in in no i admit defeat and lapse into the Bottom line is this the nato pact nations for 40 had a continued English speaking population Liv ing in their they for two Gen been confronted with a foreign Tongue on a Day today for most a european tour is a Uncein lifetime experience of two to three years if these situations were there would assuredly be More multilingual since the situation is As it it behoves and others of your to be just a trifle less for my i would like to ask in Glis speaking europeans to be patient when americans try speaking your native Tongue even if you can talk rings around us in Bear with us were Bilyj Stuttgart european edition Usa editor in chief us Deputy editor in chief Blackwell production manager Proctor managing editor Mcdermott circulation manager newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members of the military services contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official views or endorsed the the department of defense or the european the 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