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Incidentally: I'm at a loss as to why you feel the need to turn this into an America-v-Britain thing. I wasn't insulting to America or Americans in the discussion about guns. I was interested in a seemingly distinct cultural difference. One that is apparently distinct between different parts of America as much as it is distinct between our two nations.
It also baffles me how often people (and you especially) throw out insults based on something that happened two and a half centuries ago. I can see how your victory in the revolution had and has a profound impact on your sense of self as a nation. I'm not sure you understand how little impact our loss had and has on ours. The idea that we lost the American war of Independence is not something I find humiliating and references to it do not insult me. Though how that loss gets characterised (as with the 'you'd all be speaking German if we hadn't saved your asses in ww2' line) irritates me from a historical perspective. That's more about disliking overly simplistic narratives about highly complex and historically specific events.
But as your intent was clearly to insult, I'll take it as one. And again ask the question: why be insulting?
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08-31-2014, 09:29 AM
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