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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
Umm "chosen people" can you explain this please? I don't feel that way at all.Deersbee wrote:Very interesting thoughts, everybody, thank you very much! The Americans do feel as belonging to a "chosen people", it is part of their genetic make-up, that probably few other peoples can boast. Not sure about how this feeling and skin-colour co-relate.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
Related question: How different are Europeans?
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
He means we get Israel when the Jews are done with it.Twoflower wrote:Umm "chosen people" can you explain this please? I don't feel that way at all.Deersbee wrote:Very interesting thoughts, everybody, thank you very much! The Americans do feel as belonging to a "chosen people", it is part of their genetic make-up, that probably few other peoples can boast. Not sure about how this feeling and skin-colour co-relate.
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
Do we have to keep it?Gawdzilla wrote:He means we get Israel when the Jews are done with it.Twoflower wrote:Umm "chosen people" can you explain this please? I don't feel that way at all.Deersbee wrote:Very interesting thoughts, everybody, thank you very much! The Americans do feel as belonging to a "chosen people", it is part of their genetic make-up, that probably few other peoples can boast. Not sure about how this feeling and skin-colour co-relate.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
There is no genetic make-up for Americans. We tend to go mongrel.Deersbee wrote:Very interesting thoughts, everybody, thank you very much! The Americans do feel as belonging to a "chosen people", it is part of their genetic make-up, that probably few other peoples can boast. Not sure about how this feeling and skin-colour co-relate.
For many of us, history begins with the Renaissance and only really comes into focus with the Enlightenment. That could explain our optimism.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
Yeah, and we have to fight the Yankees over it! :lay;Twoflower wrote:Do we have to keep it?Gawdzilla wrote:He means we get Israel when the Jews are done with it.Twoflower wrote:Umm "chosen people" can you explain this please? I don't feel that way at all.Deersbee wrote:Very interesting thoughts, everybody, thank you very much! The Americans do feel as belonging to a "chosen people", it is part of their genetic make-up, that probably few other peoples can boast. Not sure about how this feeling and skin-colour co-relate.
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
The Pledge of Allegiance always seemed a bit odd to me - and I can't imagine anything similar happening in this country, unless the BNP got into power. Is it really said every morning in every school? Or is that just some nonsense I've picked up from TV?
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Where I went to school it was said every morning and if you didn't at least stand you got in trouble. I would just stand and glare at the flag every morning.Psychoserenity wrote:The Pledge of Allegiance always seemed a bit odd to me - and I can't imagine anything similar happening in this country, unless the BNP got into power. Is it really said every morning in every school? Or is that just some nonsense I've picked up from TV?
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
It's a bonding exercise. Disparate groups need something in common to help them identify with the whole. In England, it's the Royals. In Canada it's . . . geese, I guess.Psychoserenity wrote:The Pledge of Allegiance always seemed a bit odd to me - and I can't imagine anything similar happening in this country, unless the BNP got into power. Is it really said every morning in every school? Or is that just some nonsense I've picked up from TV?
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We are not bonded by the royalsGawdzilla wrote:It's a bonding exercise. Disparate groups need something in common to help them identify with the whole. In England, it's the Royals. In Canada it's . . . geese, I guess.Psychoserenity wrote:The Pledge of Allegiance always seemed a bit odd to me - and I can't imagine anything similar happening in this country, unless the BNP got into power. Is it really said every morning in every school? Or is that just some nonsense I've picked up from TV?
It's only someone reminds us we remember we have some .
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On a conscious level, yes. And it was different just a few decades ago.Feck wrote:We are not bonded by the royalsGawdzilla wrote:It's a bonding exercise. Disparate groups need something in common to help them identify with the whole. In England, it's the Royals. In Canada it's . . . geese, I guess.Psychoserenity wrote:The Pledge of Allegiance always seemed a bit odd to me - and I can't imagine anything similar happening in this country, unless the BNP got into power. Is it really said every morning in every school? Or is that just some nonsense I've picked up from TV?
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Nah, in England we go through decade long phases of slagging off the royals, or slagging off the politicians, or both at the same time. At the moment we're in a politicians phase.Gawdzilla wrote:On a conscious level, yes. And it was different just a few decades ago.Feck wrote:We are not bonded by the royalsGawdzilla wrote:It's a bonding exercise. Disparate groups need something in common to help them identify with the whole. In England, it's the Royals. In Canada it's . . . geese, I guess.Psychoserenity wrote:The Pledge of Allegiance always seemed a bit odd to me - and I can't imagine anything similar happening in this country, unless the BNP got into power. Is it really said every morning in every school? Or is that just some nonsense I've picked up from TV?
Oh and the weather.
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If you didn't like them, they'd be gone. Simple.Psychoserenity wrote:Nah, in England we go through decade long phases of slagging off the royals, or slagging off the politicians, or both at the same time. At the moment we're in a politicians phase.
Oh and the weather.
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Re: How different are Americans and Europeans?
Oh my cloud in heaven have you no knowledge of ice hockey?!Gawdzilla wrote:It's a bonding exercise. Disparate groups need something in common to help them identify with the whole. In England, it's the Royals. In Canada it's . . . geese, I guess.
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