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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (73043)	3/24/2010 12:49:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

Look at this amazing outcome of the great, glorious and historic improvements by the British Empire. A click of a mouse and hey presto, en.wikipedia.org You can see from that map one of the most important results of the British Empire. See how India and Pakistan were part of it. See how the USA was too. What happened was that hordes of Indians learned english thanks for the empire. Up in the northwest corner of India is a gene pool which led to Ashkenazi Jews when combined with Bedouin and other north African/Middle East people. There are still plenty of extremely smart people lurking around that area. Fortunately, english frees them from living lives of penury in Maharajah serfdom. Meanwhile, to the west, the USA was born and developed and took in swarms of Ashkenazis and others of high talent who, turned loose into the world's pre-eminent economic system, blossomed and created a vast economic success now crowned by the likes of Google, Qualcomm and many many others. Swarms of those smart english lingua franca Indians have joined the system. So, while the British Empire is no more, the result is [like children growing up and leaving home] taking over where the British Empire left off, but doing it on a far grander scale. Without the British Empire, it would not have been. And the fun has just begun. Mqurice