nxylas

"If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal.

If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative.

What could be simpler?" - Kurt Vonnegut

effi

Sweetie, I guess it takes one to know one.

daveuk1965

Hm, that`s interesting - tell me, are your parents a little upset that they went off to fight Hitler and then gave birth to him a few generations later ?

veryfunny

Funny you should say that because Liberals in this country see you as Money greedy, bible bashers, intolerent, bigots and insensitive.

So where do you stand on stem cell research?

nxylas

Are you talking to me or Kurt Vonnegut?

USBound

with her millions in her rucksack I must add.

anyone ever heard of tangents?

lairdside

I never mean to imply that it was

I just personally think it's a shame that so few of the Americans I meet are familiar with the foundations of their country. so few even know what the Articles of Confederation are! Or can name the first 11 Presidents of the US prior to the Constitution

Steff

Hehe, do you just go up to people and ask them those questions or what?

lairdside

It comes up in conversation. Very few have even the slightest clue what I am going on about

Generally in relation to the naturalization questions -- or re: education in schools.

Steff

OK well I will admit I don't know the answers either.

But do Brits really know so much more about their history?

USBound

I know some.. but nowhere near all.. the main thing with the US is.. there aint much of it... US history could be absorbed in a few short weeks of reading

lairdside

I could challenge you on that one

This site is a decent place to start. My interest was sparked admittedly because my husband is from an old CT family and most of the prominent figures in early American history are his ancestors. I continued to learn more though because it's actually very interesting, more scandal than a soap opera too!

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm

It's just a collection of relevant documents in chronological order but provides an outline of events in sequence. I've been reading this stuff in my spare time for three years now and there is so much more to learn!

lairdside

Hmm... in general? They teach history at school I thought - at least as far back as the Roman occupation.

I enjoy reading history, strange because I went right off it at school when we started to study WW2. It seemed they were most interested in the brute memorization of dates

veryfunny

You.

Pulaski

Yes, but in depth studies of history rarely cover more than a few of the numerous epochs of British history - at high school I studied the Roman occupation, and tribal history that ran up to it, the dark ages, and the Norman conquest.

Though I had the greatest respect for my history teacher, his teaching style was dull as ditch water and I refused to take history at O' level - and in any case the selected epoch for O' level at my school was the Napoleonic wars to WWII, which didn't interest me either. Since I left school I have become much more interested in history.