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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (22071)	8/15/2001 5:35:26 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

which we got from those people we revolted against, the British Remember, we were the British. "Americans" were not really Americans in any native sense. They were British colonists who later decided they wished to have independence from their kinsmen. Our postcolonial history is different from those of other colonies largely because the American revolution was not fought by a colonized people against a colonial power. It was fought by colonists, against their mother country. Imagine how things might have been if we had forced the native population into subservience, instead of simply killing them, and if they had continued to outnumber their masters by a wide margin. How different would our history have been. If the white population of southern Africa had simply exterminated the black population when they had the chance, back when people weren't worried about that sort of thing, and then declared independence, they might be in a place very similar to where we stand now. The vagaries of history. Of course "if" is a big word, and we will never know what might have happened, but it makes for interesting speculation.