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Forum: USA

Jun 14th 2012, 8:30 pm

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What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

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Posted By HumphreyC

Re: What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

It's not true that they weren't violent and in a chronic state of warfare - it's just their way of war was different from Europeans - i.e they fought for scalps, captives and honour rather than land...

Forum: USA

Jun 14th 2012, 7:47 pm

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What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

Views: 32,987

Posted By HumphreyC

Re: What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

It's a persuasive analogy but looking at the big picture it is a tad too simplistic. The history of the world has been a history of massive human migration and land use shifting from people to...

Forum: USA

Jun 14th 2012, 6:31 pm

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What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

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Posted By HumphreyC

Re: What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

Right but - we are back to this black or white view of history. On the one hand you have the fact that the indigenous people were treated badly and in some cases massacred by European immigrants (and...

Forum: USA

Jun 14th 2012, 3:47 pm

Replies: 410

What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

Views: 32,987

Posted By HumphreyC

Re: What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

Well - the Empire was in many ways a terrible thing for all sorts of people (famines in Ireland/Bengal, the slave trade, the opium wars, playing ethnic and religious groups off against one another) -...

Forum: USA

Jun 14th 2012, 3:44 pm

Replies: 410

What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

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Posted By HumphreyC

Re: What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

I'll stick up for the pledge of allegiance. My wife is a teacher who has to recite it every day and has a renewed appreciation for it having lived abroad for so long. I mean you can call it...

Forum: USA

Jun 11th 2012, 6:21 pm

Replies: 410

What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

Views: 32,987

Posted By HumphreyC

Re: What's your LEAST favorite thing about the US?

Least favorite thing ? - well probably the healthcare mess but that follows on from the weird politics. Case in point, I was at a party last weekend out in the woods. Some of my father in law's...

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