Africans as a whole are ...
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"There is, I fear, no question that the average Nicaraguan is one of the most dishonest, unreliable, violent and alcoholic of the Latin Americans."
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"Africans as a whole are not only not averse to cutting off their nose to spite their face; they regard such an operation as a triumph of cosmetic surgery."
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"Anyone [in Canada] who is even moderately good at what they do — in literature, the theater, skiing or whatever — tends to become a national figure. And anyone who stands out at all from the crowd tends to be praised to the skies and given the Order of Canada at once."
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"They [the Thais] have no literature, no painting and only a very odd kind of music; their sculpture, ceramics and dancing are borrowed from others, and their architecture is monotonous and interior decoration hideous."
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Not that diplomatic in the classic sense of the word, but a great read: some parts of letters were disclosed the other day written by British ambassadors about their foreign hosts. Some of these valedictory dispatches to London are quite funny: annoyed mockeries, boredom and anything but pc. Say, if you're the ambassador in Canada - what drives you to write a pearl like this in your dispatch letter:
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"Canadians are mildly nationalistic, (but perhaps less shrilly so than Australians), VERY sensitive, especially to any expressed or implied British sneers about Canada as "boring", and perhaps somewhat lacking in self-confidence."
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So far just a couple of letters are published, hopefully there's more to come! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n85qk
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"Can it be that in wading through the plethora of business plans, capability reviews ... and other excrescences of the management age, we have indeed forgotten what diplomacy is all about?"
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