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Actually there is a very good reason to be critical of France. Well, not exactly France, but how French culture has in many regards achieved a truly imperial status, when it comes to defining and at the same time sanctioning the rich bourgousie across the world. The problem with the current discourse is that is, as stated mainly employed in a fashion that seems to me is very much designed to prevent class warfare, and instead give primitive nationalism a bone.
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Tripledoc
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How do I reach the conclusion that the Anglo Saxons are predisposed towards militarims? Well one thing is for instance Baden Powell. He was a spy for the English during the Boer War. Later he created the Boy Scout movement, which in turn became a model for many boy scout organisations, including the Hitler Jugend. The second thing is the whole elitist educational system developed by the Anglo-Saxon educational system. For instance Eton, where military training has a big role to play. But also other schools were militarized, including Oxbridge. The perfect expression of this is the movie "IF", were British bording students violently rebel against the overly militarized and religious educational system.
Also you can see it has been the elitist Ivy League universities who have defined and made the rules for such sports as basketball, American football, and so on. Today it seems to me that this, while is is of course "only sports", has served the purpose of making militarized anglo-saxon culture a key element of the American educational system. People often forget that this key element is the result of a top down influence, and that the recent excursions towards multiculturalism is perhaps a reaction towards that dominance.
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Tripledoc
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch
Any more nation-bashing war jokes? Hear about the one where Iraqi soldiers surrendered to a US journalist? |
Seemed to me that the journalists at the front were an integrated part of the war machine, so why not?
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TCO
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Richmond, VA
Jan 1970 time: 00:33
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quote: Originally posted by Tripledoc
How do I reach the conclusion that the Anglo Saxons are predisposed towards militarims? Well one thing is for instance Baden Powell. He was a spy for the English during the Boer War. Later he created the Boy Scout movement, which in turn became a model for many boy scout organisations, including the Hitler Jugend. The second thing is the whole elitist educational system developed by the Anglo-Saxon educational system. For instance Eton, where military training has a big role to play. But also other schools were militarized, including Oxbridge. The perfect expression of this is the movie "IF", were British bording students violently rebel against the overly militarized and religious educational system.
Also you can see it has been the elitist Ivy League universities who have defined and made the rules for such sports as basketball, American football, and so on. Today it seems to me that this, while is is of course "only sports", has served the purpose of making militarized anglo-saxon culture a key element of the American educational system. People often forget that this key element is the result of a top down influence, and that the recent excursions towards multiculturalism is perhaps a reaction towards that dominance. |
Does your ass get chapped from eating nachos? Sheesh. Taking on the boy scouts?
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quote: Originally posted by TCO
Does your ass get chapped from eating nachos? Sheesh. Taking on the boy scouts? |
Re anglo-saxon militarism I forgot the predominance of barrack's humour of course.
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