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To: RealMuLan who wrote (60354)2/15/2005 8:44:45 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
The U.S. only began an independent literature about 75 years after gaining independence – and that was after 200 years of considerable settlement!

Canada began its serious literary expression AT THE SAME TIME, at least 30 years before Canada gained “independence,” with one tenth the population of the U.S.

It's understandable the two countries literatures developed about the same time. Canada got a big surge in population from the US at the time of the Revolution. In both countries, a big enough population base needed to be developed prior to the development of a national literature.

A number of forces prevented the U.S. from developing a literature.

To begin, the U.S. began, and has continued, as an anti-intellectual country (electing presidents like the near-illiterates Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush who is both a Yale grad and Harvard MBA and based on SAT and military tests, is likely smarter than most of the people who'll read this nonsense.)

Its powerful religious authorities established many of the world's greatest universities .

the extermination of the native Indians was a State policy, No getting their land was state policy just as it was in Canada.

..and today the small remnant are not in U.S. law First Nations (as they are in Canada) but merely the dependent refuse of conquest. There's a big ignorance of US Indian law here.

By the same token, ALL U.S. people agreed to slavery after 1776 as did all Canadian people - yep, there were slaves there too.
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