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Not many Brits here, actually. Over 50 million people claim German and Irish nationality each. There are also each 30 million of africans and hispanics. Starting to narrow down?
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I'm not talking bloodlines or skin color, I mean the predominant language, the political system, the legal system, most of the religion, much of the materialistic value, etc etc are all derivative of British culture. Britain's not as much of a melting pot as America, but there are a lot of people from around the world trying to immigrate there. The point is, to include America and England as two disparate cultures in a game that's all about rewriting history is kinda silly--they're effectively, to a great extent, the same culture.
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No, the French Revolution did.
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Please. The French Revolution was such a poser. It just thought the American Revolution was cool, and wanted to be like it. The American Revolution got all the girls.
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zorbop
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hold on, whats all this crap about britatin being the queen of the see's?
i dont care if they tell you in your bogus little american-history classes that big bad britain and it's navy tried to "opress" people.
britain did have a relatively strong navy a few hundred years ago.... but not really that strong compared to france or spain. but take WWII for instance, who had better ships? britain or germany? germany, britain designed wwii ships to be fast and light, which didnt work to well
secondly, if you really care about the traits that is what the editor is for, i normally use a mod with germany and china having switched traits.
furthermore, is industry/commerce really that much better than science/military? sure, industrious is the best trait. but commerce isnt that strong, probobly worse than both scientific and militaristic. plus, the panzer is far better than the french musket thingy?
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The point is, to include America and England as two disparate cultures in a game that's all about rewriting history is kinda silly |
Thus, Americans should have been culturally-linked with the European Civs.
Those so eager to get rid of the Americans in a game made by Americans should simply load up Civ3 & attack or edit the Americans that way rather than making futile cries here.
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Incoming from CO
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Originally posted by cyclotron7
Planetfall, I disagree with almost all of your reasons that America is not religious. I think the people are very much a religious people... but that's not the point. "Religious" seems to be used by Civ3 to mean something like "thocratic," and America's separation of church and state is about the furthest you get from a theocracy without banning religion altogether. So, people yes, nation no. We may be religious, but most of us have secular values that are distinctly different from the values of most so-called "religious cultures."
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Excellent point about theocracy. America started as Deist with a general union of state and some God but also with a separation of state and a more specific declaration of who, what... this God is. Particularly excluded were any god spokemen in the state operation.
The religion in America is bypolar. Instead of a theocracy we have a culturacy, {Secular religion} publically and a individualism privately {whatever you believe is ok as long as you share some kind of ethic sytem}.
Here "religion" has been redefined from the 1st Webster definition to the last: "any object of conscientious regard and pursuit" and "to be very earnest about something".
Civ3 seems to use religious as applying to a civ that is very earnest about the same thing. Even if we said America was earnest about it's culture, there would not be agreement as we are in the midst of some heavy culture warfare.
To summarize, many {most?} Americans may describe themselves as religious people, but this is not a key trait of the American culture. We don't try to Christianize Kuwait and the Moslem countries. We don't try to proselytize secularism to the world. We don't even try to force our separation of civ government and civ religion on other peoples.
The phrase that reasonated with people was not "it's about God, stupid" but "it's the econmomy, stupid". Commerce is much more our earnest focus than a common religion.
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planetfall
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Incoming from CO
Jan 2002
time: 22:24
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"possible, Germans sometimes tend to miss the big picture but even with modern socialism there is still a strong work ethic."
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"I choose not industrial because even though there is a strong work ethic in many Germans, Germans also take 6 weeks of vacation."
And why not? With unemployment as it is... (I would definitely say they are industrious)
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Ok, they still have a work ethic. I was comparing modern Germans with Germans of 20-30 years ago. Then the work ethic was more like workaholicism
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"He blocked almost all R&D on the me262, a early jet fighter."
One could argue they lacked sufficient resources and production methods to build them, but one could also argue against that.
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Reports from Luftwaffe leaders were that Hitler did not understand fighters and fighter missions. He just wanted to bomb/bomb/bomb.
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"I don't think the Germans, French, British or any other country would necessarily have listed him, either. It isn't about American bias, it's about Hitler being a very sensitive subject worldwide. I frankly think Germans would be more upset than anyone at having Hitler listed as a great leader for them."
Oddly enough, many Russian and ex-Soviet citizens wouldn't mind Stalin as a Great Leader. Where I can see Hitler as not being a GL, I question Stalin, as well. |
That was exactly my point. Both Hitler and Stalin were GL and great mass murderers. Stalin more so that Hitler by the numbers but Hitler more than Stalin by the civ memory. {I guess as a residual effect of being allied with Russia against Germany}
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"anglo-saxon",i.e., French-English"
Anglo-saxon means English. Technically, those are two German tribes. The Angles even gave England its name (Angl-land). |
I stand corrected. Thanks for the history lesson!!!! For others, the third Germanic tribe invading about 5th century bc was the Jutes. {hum, wonder is that is where "JU" came from for the JU88}
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
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Originally posted by zorbop
hold on, whats all this crap about britatin being the queen of the see's?
i dont care if they tell you in your bogus little american-history classes that big bad britain and it's navy tried to "opress" people.
britain did have a relatively strong navy a few hundred years ago.... but not really that strong compared to france or spain. but take WWII for instance, who had better ships? britain or germany? germany, britain designed wwii ships to be fast and light, which didnt work to well |
I don't know what the "opress" bit is about (I certainly didn't mention it), but you are categorically wrong about your assessment of the English navy. After the defeat of the Spanish Armada, which sent much of Spain's naval power to the bottom, England was left as ruler of the waves. She had the largest, most powerful navy in the world from the 17th century until the 20th century, when America surpassed it.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Britain's navy was supreme. That's why Germany's build up was considered a direct threat. Germany never had a larger navy than Britain. While Germany had built some impressive ships by WWII, the Royal Navy still surpassed it in size and strength, which is why Germany never had any considerable naval victories during the war, apart from the lucky shot on the Hood. That's not counting, of course, her u-boats sinking convoys.
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The Wisconsonian Empire
Dec 2002
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"again. game by americans.
germans = nazis;
france = pushovers;
thank you, come again."
hmm...thats basically the whole thread.
"That was exactly my point. Both Hitler and Stalin were GL and great mass murderers. Stalin more so that Hitler by the numbers but Hitler more than Stalin by the civ memory. {I guess as a residual effect of being allied with Russia against Germany}"
I think that's exactly it, we don't emphasize on Stalin because he was our Allies. Makes you wonder what else our country's would resort to...
"I stand corrected. Thanks for the history lesson!!!! For others, the third Germanic tribe invading about 5th century bc was the Jutes. {hum, wonder is that is where "JU" came from for the JU88}"
I'm glad for once somebody didn't get defensive about it. If you had said german I could have corrected you again. The Jutes come from Denmark, hence the name, The Jutland Peninsula.
"Germany never had any considerable naval victories during the war, apart from the lucky shot on the Hood. That's not counting, of course, her u-boats sinking convoys."
Wasn't it the Bismark that sank the Hood (the two flagships going at it, how cool)? I think with the U-boats, that's just excellent planning to counter the superior numbers of the English.
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May 1999
time: 05:24
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"The new country versus current superpower arguments are therefore largely irrelevant"
At least you didn't say "completely irrelevant"... |
I think the marketing considerations trump any other arguments regardless of how strong or weak those arguments might be. I intended no comment on whether or not the USA "deserves" to be in the game. (If marketing considerations were ignored then I would say that it is certainly not a "must include" like Rome or England. I would not go further than that without giving this matter some thought. I shall give this matter no thought.)
I wonder if marketing might have entered into the decision to include the Iroquois, a USA indian tribe, rather than the Incas or Mayas. OTH the selections may have just been willy nilly (that would explain why Spain was not included in the 16 civs).
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