A LITTLE MORE ON MITTEN$ AND CULTURE

During his FAIL overseas trip, Mitten$ blamed the Palestinians for not having the right (i.e., Anglo-Saxon) culture and got more than a few smackdowns, including one here. I was reading E. R. Dodds' The Greeks and the Irrational and came across a line attributed to the great playwright Euripides (480-406 B.C) -

"There's nothing shameful but thinking makes it so." - Aeolus, fragment 19.

This brought to mind a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet -

Hamlet: Why then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or
bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. - Act 2, lines 250-51

The point here is that two men separated by about two thousands years and from very distinct cultural backgrounds could express nearly identical thoughts.