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Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] OT: Do European parents still make their kids learn accordian?

From: "Peter Korsten" <peterk@...>
Date: 2000-08-23

From: "Edwards, Ed" <ed.edwards@...>

> In America, >%50 of boys have to join "Little League" which is baseball
for
> kids. It's almost a requirement, parents really push it on them.
>
> I've been told that kids in Europe have to learn to play the accordian.
Is
> this true? If so, then that may be why so many people buy synthesizers
> there.
>
> Just an innocent, honest question.

Simple answer: no.

Europe is a collection of somewhat like 50 or 60 states. In cases like these
it's impossible to talk about 'Europe' as a whole, because it isn't. In some
ways yes, in other ways no. For instance, in France you can't have a
vasectomy because it is willing mutilation.

- Peter