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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: arun gera who wrote (21172)8/13/2007 8:08:16 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (1) of 219224
 
Arun,
In the US it ended shortly after 1776. Maybe in England and in her colonial possessions it never really did end, at least in the sense of the people being "submissive subjects of your betters", the nobles and royals. <grin>

To my mind, even a hint of that attitude of submission is a very bad and destructive thing, a great weakness.

But for the most part, it ended at conclusion of WWI with the fall of all the dynasties when a vast number of "Sirs" and "Lords" and the like all over the world suddenly became just "Misters". Maybe in India and Malaysia and a few other places, the old system of nobility and inherited privilege, which was being propped up by the British, lingered on for a time but I suppose that even there it is mostly gone by now.
Slagle
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