Re: OT (or is it?): American Imperialism
Grin. Well opinated maybe passionate nope. It is my typing style I put captials in were they are not suppose to be and I am too lazy to remove them.
And with global warming in full swing we will have plenty of water to flush toliets.
I find this thread is interesting.
Someone mentioned our cultral Imperlism and seemed to resent it and I guess that could be a valid viewpoint but here in America you see a great deal of cross contamination of cultral influnces. I grew up in all sorts of diffrent places here in America and I found big diffrences and got caught in them (had a tendency when asked were I was from to just give the last place I was from you don't want to tell a southerner that your from The north). Unfortunatly History shows that a successful culture is one that blots out or absorbs the other culture. I am not saying that's right I am just pointing out that that is what happens. And America is a melting pot of cultures and I bet we are still struggling to find The American Culture. The United States of America is a very complex thing made up of a lot of groups. Corporate America. Federal America. North. South. Yuppies. Generation X. Black. Latino. European. Native American. Asian. Californians. No telling how things will sort themselves out. I'm hoping for the one big happy Family thing myself, but I am not holding my breath.
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The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but does not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later, someone will come along with a sharper sword and hack off our arms
Clausewitz
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