Re: Matt and Co.

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) writes:

>	The first free nation with the exception of a certain group that
>were slaves?

  And the American Constitution set in motion events that freed those slaved
some 70 years later, at a cost of several hundred thousand lives
(although, to be totally correct, the freeing of the slaves was a
side-effect of a much larger struggle, the outcome of which I'm not
sure I like - i.e., the Federal government became extremely powerful).

>	For what it is worth I suspect that a major reason for such
>behaviour towards the USA is the usual response to dominant nations. 
>Throughout history people tend to more either love or hate dominant
>nations, that is they arouse more polarised emotions.  You just have to
>look at the tendency to attack the British in the early part of this
>century when they were still perceived as a major power.

  Good point. 
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