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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Slagle who wrote (68119)	8/26/2005 2:54:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Slag to say NZ was an empty wilderness is sort of true compared with downtown New York or London, but not true in ownership of land terms. The locals had a very clear idea of who owned what and constantly fought over it, in tribal genocide, slavery and cannibalism. The British didn't come swanning in and just set up shop anywhere they felt like in a largely vacant land. They had to buy land from Maoris. Having a library full of books on the British empire is obviously a lot different from knowing about it an understanding it. Note South Africa and Rhodesia were not exactly empty wilderness areas either but swarms of English moved there. Immigrants go to places where they can do well economically and where their cultural ways will fit in. Going to India, China etc was not so easy, as you say, because it's a cultural numbers game and the economic attraction of Egypt, India, China etc was a lot less than that of USA, Canada etc. Similary, Spanish headed to south America, along with Portugese. They could use their language and their opportunities were better. Mqurice

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