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To: TobagoJack who wrote (53779)	8/20/2009 2:36:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218125

TJ, you were wrong. Don't worry about it or be defensive about it. You have only 1kg of wet chemistry to make sense of everything, so you are doomed to failure here and there. <so, busybody and crazy, interfering and busybodying, much about nothing, and a throwaway line, that china should mind the business of others and look out for usa geo-strategic interest even as euro gang holds on the legacy of shameful history? or some such script? > Shhhh...., calm down, the 19th century colonialists aren't coming to get you. You are already enjoying the benefits of the last effort, ungrateful though you are. Surely you have read stories about evil-doing Captain Hook taking Wendy prisoner. Have you heard of Little Red Riding Hood? The lovely lady taken by the evil-doing men is an old story. When the rules are dog eat dog, there is no busy-bodying. It's all for one and one for all and to the barricades we go. You seemed to think it a good thing that the freedom-loving people of Tibet be liberated from the clutches of their feudal rulers by the invaders from the east and north. But you think that somebody wanting to help a damsel in distress is worthy only of disparaging. It would be quite reasonable for the USA to rescue said damsel, after all, they are bigger and tougher than a clutch of brutal thugs running Burma. Hilary Clinton could well put it to Obama that rescuing a damsel in distress is a jolly good idea. Feminine solidarity rulz ok. "Shameful history"? Now now TJ, who do you think set you up there in Hong Kong with those things you enjoy so much? Don't be churlish. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (53779)	8/20/2009 9:28:12 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 218125

>>so, busybody and crazy, interfering and busybodying, much about nothing, and a throwaway line<< He was just being Scots-Irish. They're the proud, boastful, pugilistic, rebellious folk of our southeastern mountains, who contributed many revolutionary, political, and military leaders to USA history. Sort of like your Hakka people in China! :0) He wrote a book about it... Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (Paperback) by James Webb amazon.com Former navy secretary Webb (Fields of Fire; etc.) wants not only to offer a history of the Scots-Irish but to redeem them from their redneck, hillbilly stereotype and place them at the center of American history and culture. As Webb relates, the Scots-Irish first emigrated to the U.S., 200,000 to 400,000 strong, in four waves during the 18th century, settling primarily in Appalachia before spreading west and south. Webb's thesis is that the Scots-Irish, with their rugged individualism, warrior culture built on extended familial groups (the "kind of people who would die in place rather than retreat") and an instinctive mistrust of authority, created an American culture that mirrors these traits. Webb has a genuine flair for describing the battles the Scots-Irish fought during their history, but his analysis of their role in America's social and political history is, ironically for someone trying to crush stereotypes, fixated on what he sees, in almost Manichaean terms, as a class conflict between the Scots-Irish and America's "paternalistic Ivy League-centered, media-connected, politically correct power centers." He even excuses resistance to the "Northern-dominated" Civil Rights movement. Another glaring weakness is the virtual absence of women from the sociological narrative. Webb interweaves his own Scots-Irish family history throughout the book with some success, but by and large his writing and analysis are overwhelmed by romanticism.