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Old 07-30-2011, 11:30 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Arragonis View Post
When I think of the US (or indeed the west as whole) attempting to dominate China, I can't help thinking of Ken Mcleod's quote about Europe :
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Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere.
Might want to discuss that with the Celts. Or the Picts. Or the Etruscans. Or a lot of other people (or their ghosts) going back to the Neandertals.
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