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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (6791)	8/7/2001 1:42:29 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Sorry - maybe I went a bit overboard. But one person here was saying China is just coming out of the Stone Age and then another said Europe etc. was in the Stone Age or Trees (!) when China was so sophisticated. Neither is true. And I didn't mean to say that there is necessarily anything good about the Western conquest of the entire world. They were just meaner and more aggressive and monomaniacal than anyone else and had some geographical advantages too (see Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond - I didn't read it but heard him give a lecture on it here at Australian National University). Some of my ancestors suffered from European aggressiveness whether from the English in Ireland or European oppression of Jews, but others were English (that's where Germany came in 2000 years ago - though Jews and Germans were really mixed up too after 2000 years of living together which is just one reason why the Nazi theories made no sense at all). The Chinese might now get the last laugh on the West by outbettering them at being Western? BTW my girlfriend is Chinese - from the PRC. Sorry, I think I am getting really off topic here? David

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