[Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists

[castanford]

Richard, are you or anyone else in our community keeping tract of these test 
responses and 'cranking' any numbers or, at least, developing a plot? I have 
not as I inadvertantly deleted a number of replies before I fully realized 
their potential worth.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists


> On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:56, Jackhat1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> The results might tell us more about the political views of academics 
>> than
>> the political views of Buddhists.
>
> In the United States the vast majority of Buddhists are highly educated, 
> and
> many are academics or writers or artists. My guess is that Asian Buddhists
> would be much less communistic-libertarian than all those who have 
> reported
> to buddha-l have been. Hell, I don't even have to guess. I know from my 
> own
> experience that Asian Buddhists tend to have social and political views 
> that
> make their Western co-religionists cringe.
>
>
>
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> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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