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Cultural Education
DEAR EDITOR,
I need to be educated on a cultural matter. Electronic mail is now the way to communicate the world over, but I find much pleasure in utilizing the old “snail mail” to keep in touch with relatives, friends and school mates who grew up in the 1960s.
As a consequence I usually purchase postage stamps for mailing cards and letters to overseas addresses. Three days ago (Monday, 29th instant), I purchased stamps at the GPO and was disappointed with what was sold to me. The $150 stamps for the greeting cards I sent to the USA and Canada had depicted on them combat aircraft depicting Chinese Aviation Centenary with our country’s name printed on the bottom left of the stamps.
Is this the present cultural norm? Is this part of globalization? Is it then possible that postage stamps printed in Beijing can depict Guyana’s masquerade dancers, or the Chateau Margot Chimney?
Some time in the past I saw another local postage stamp which depicted a Caucasian image skiing on a white (icy) slope. The post cards I sent off to North America this week are addressed to relatives and friends, some of whom were former military personnel. I don’t think they will be amused. I anticipate their e-mails and comments on leadership and patriotism.
S. A. Scott
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