Quote from Gringinho:
Then you will get the picture.
G
It appears that you join the rank(s) of those who fail to comprehend the sheer simplicity of my question posed to R.
As always, the world of men is driven by it's roots.
China may entertain interlocking business with Japan for example, but on Chinese soil. It may chose to describe the greater zone as Asia out of expediency but it remains firmly China at heart, and one hundred years of passing is a heartbeat in time to China.
Perhaps India is similar but in a more territorially self contained manner.
Britain enjoyed an enormous advantage for many years.
Firstly, it was an island when islands really mattered (sharing only a land border with the inter-waring Scots) and secondly the aftermath of it's civil war was well managed.
Also it had coal.
All in all well positioned for the coming industrial revolution with it's tried and true navy and army corps.
And so Britain embarked on a mission of bringing christainity to the world in return for cheap raw commodities.
(replace the word christanity with the word democracy and what have you got today)
Mankind never strays too far from it's roots.
US followed a similar path without the cultural baggage of the past.
Immigrants swapped their diverse cultural bad habits for the stars and stripes.
The North persuaded the South that Slavery was much overrated as an economical tool and that economic servitude was by far the cheaper and more flexible option.
Funnily enough, this idea was extended by an English Banker who wrote in a letter to Washington in 1850s that it was far far better to control a mans wages than accept the burden of his responsibility. Granted his name did not have an English ring to it but never the less he was English.
And so with the good governance of the day the US grew rapidly under the unseen hands of the money men.
The ghastly civil war proved the testing ground for the growing US military in much the same way that naval battles and land wars had been the testing ground for the British.
Just as it was an Englishman's badge of honour to be English, so it became an enormous sense of pride to be American. The fact that The Americas stretched from Hudson Bay to Tierra de Fuego seemingly passed unnoticed in the sheer excitement.
The problem (challenge) faced today is to determine exactly who is who and where exactly do their allegiances lie.
Are all Englishmen english first and foremost as once they almost were.
If California, New Mexico and Arizona, Texas and Florida continue their relentless drive towards their latino roots, will you suddenly become surprised at the outcome.
And so in this continually intergrating world spare a thought for who is not intergrating.
Who is playing the game in body but not in spirit as it were.
Which brings us right back to WOM versus AOM.
If you believe Anglos will huddle together in the future and rule the world then you have as much right to that belief as those who think coffee coloured people will be the salvation of mankind.
It seems sometimes that the most basic of questions prove to be over powering at times.
"will price make it's next leg long or short"
such a simple question and yet 95%+ will lose money on it constantly.
regards
f9
Then you will get the picture.
G
It appears that you join the rank(s) of those who fail to comprehend the sheer simplicity of my question posed to R.
As always, the world of men is driven by it's roots.
China may entertain interlocking business with Japan for example, but on Chinese soil. It may chose to describe the greater zone as Asia out of expediency but it remains firmly China at heart, and one hundred years of passing is a heartbeat in time to China.
Perhaps India is similar but in a more territorially self contained manner.
Britain enjoyed an enormous advantage for many years.
Firstly, it was an island when islands really mattered (sharing only a land border with the inter-waring Scots) and secondly the aftermath of it's civil war was well managed.
Also it had coal.
All in all well positioned for the coming industrial revolution with it's tried and true navy and army corps.
And so Britain embarked on a mission of bringing christainity to the world in return for cheap raw commodities.
(replace the word christanity with the word democracy and what have you got today)
Mankind never strays too far from it's roots.
US followed a similar path without the cultural baggage of the past.
Immigrants swapped their diverse cultural bad habits for the stars and stripes.
The North persuaded the South that Slavery was much overrated as an economical tool and that economic servitude was by far the cheaper and more flexible option.
Funnily enough, this idea was extended by an English Banker who wrote in a letter to Washington in 1850s that it was far far better to control a mans wages than accept the burden of his responsibility. Granted his name did not have an English ring to it but never the less he was English.
And so with the good governance of the day the US grew rapidly under the unseen hands of the money men.
The ghastly civil war proved the testing ground for the growing US military in much the same way that naval battles and land wars had been the testing ground for the British.
Just as it was an Englishman's badge of honour to be English, so it became an enormous sense of pride to be American. The fact that The Americas stretched from Hudson Bay to Tierra de Fuego seemingly passed unnoticed in the sheer excitement.
The problem (challenge) faced today is to determine exactly who is who and where exactly do their allegiances lie.
Are all Englishmen english first and foremost as once they almost were.
If California, New Mexico and Arizona, Texas and Florida continue their relentless drive towards their latino roots, will you suddenly become surprised at the outcome.
And so in this continually intergrating world spare a thought for who is not intergrating.
Who is playing the game in body but not in spirit as it were.
Which brings us right back to WOM versus AOM.
If you believe Anglos will huddle together in the future and rule the world then you have as much right to that belief as those who think coffee coloured people will be the salvation of mankind.
It seems sometimes that the most basic of questions prove to be over powering at times.
"will price make it's next leg long or short"
such a simple question and yet 95%+ will lose money on it constantly.
regards
f9
