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To: maceng2 who wrote (53152)	10/19/2002 7:11:46 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 281500

>>I think the mistake occurred giving it back to France at the end of WW2.<< I am no fan of colonies. Having said that, I often wonder how the course of the history of the world would have been different if, instead of seizing colonies, European nations would have done something different, but I can't think what, exactly. The enormous technological superiority of the Europeans juxtaposed with the simplicity of the rest of the world at a time when respect for the difference of others was non-existent . . . . I can't come up with a good counterfactual.

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