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Native Americans suffered what they have referred to as “genocide” by the hand of white Europeans (though we white Europeans love to pretend that it was the Americans who did it).
Considering that most indians (native americans) died from deceases not present in the America's it can hardly be considered a genocide. Their was no mass extermination campaign most died fighting superior armies and because they couldn't adapt. Fuirther more the native population was never large since their culture was not advanced. All the settlers needed to win the west was the gun and the horse. Not only that most died due to their resistance against settlers. Further more, you can't blame all Europeans the blame rests mainly one a few nations who actively had colonization attempts, the spanish, french, portuguese, english and dutch and others. Considering the Dutch and others never took a mass scale colonization in their colonies they can be taken off the list of blame. The portuguese mostly settled coastal regions where few natives lived. The spanish mostly settled coastal regions and in some of the former colonies spain had most populations are of mixed breed and so clearly that isn't genocide. The French colonization was too small tyo have such a big impact and the French had cordial relations with native groups in their regions. Thus logically the blame or most of it rests on the English. Hence, this English man is trying to transfer blame away from his nation.

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Yes, as if she’s not in the news enough with her newly shaven head, that ambassador of rock ‘n’ roll suicide, “Britney Spears,” is now Cockney Rhyming Slang for either “tears” or “beers” depending on your preference.
This man is an idiot. She does not represent rock music in any way. I know rock has been dead for a long time and few good acts exist now and most of the good bands while have their members die soon, but do not brind insult to injury.

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Perhaps because the English – unlike the Scottish or Welsh or even Cornish – have lost all memory and knowledge of their ancient language, and have only a vague idea of their ancient culture, that England more than Wales or Scotland can be equated with liberalism. The Welsh and the Scots want to preserve their language and culture, while the English, in a feeling of intellectual superiority, feel that the tiny island of the United Kingdom should be multilingual, just as it should be multicultural. Or, at least that has been the trend.

In his paper, “When Was Wales” (published in Nationalism in Europe – 1815 to the Present), Gwyn A. Williams notes correctly that the old Welsh language is entirely accessible to the Welshman, while Old English is entirely inaccessible to the modern Englishman (if he has even heard of Old English). He makes a poignant and depressing statement:

“The British nation and the British state are clearly entering a process of dissolution, into Europe or the mid-Atlantic or a post imperial fog. Britain has begun its long march out of history.
I like this quote. Particularly the last part.
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