Wei,
Can we agree that "The Dirt Down Under" is the flip side of the hit single
"Granddad Built a Railway" ?  A bit of railway here.... a bit of
civilization there.  Put your pscyhologist's hat back on (or your Lion
Tamer's hat, if you like) and take another look at the quotation below.
Let's pry up the floorboards of this antic disposition. Truepenny.
Tim Romano



>
> There should be no difficulty in looking at Pound's writing and coming to
> different conclusions regarding its significance.  What for instance
should
> we make of this quote:
>
>
>   And as an American I do NOT want to see my country
>   annihilatin' the population of Iceland, as the British
>   annihilated the Maoris.  And as for the Australians, they
>   deserve a Nippo-Chinese invasion.  Criminals were their
>   granddads, and their contribution to civilization is not so
>   much as to merit even a Jewish medal.  Why the heck
>   the Chinese and the Japs don't combine and drive that
>   dirt out of Australia, and set up a bit of civilization in those
>   parts, is for me part of the mystery of the orient.
>    And in any case I do NOT want my compatriots from
>   the ages of 20 to 40 to go git slaughtered to keep up the
>   Sassoon and other British Jew rackets in Singapore and
>   in Shanghai.  That is not my idea of American patriotism.
>     (Doob, 21).
>
> This passage could be interpreted in any number of ways, and it touches on
> several important issues, having to do with imperialism, Pound's views on
> British, Chinese, Japanese, Australian and American culture, how notion of
> "patriotism", and his attitudes toward Jews.