Petty Chauvinism

To the Editor: I am an alumnus of Dartmouth who had a chance to read the above-mentioned editorial from your paper, and I would like to express my strong condemnation of the author's arrogant and disrespectful position -- disrespectful not only towards the foreign countries but to the American nation and culture itself, as his excited claim that "... we [the Americans] have no culture!" stands as an offense against a rich cultural heritage of the United States and does a grave injustice to millions of American people. The exceptionalism expressed by the author has a strong nationalist-chauvinist flavour that in itself goes counter to the very principles of American political system to which the author gives so much praise.