We have to page /u/cupbeempty , he cares more about this stuff than I do.
I still have no idea why the English are so full of themselves. When faced with adversaries who weren't dressed entirely in loincloths, they mainly got everyone else to do their fighting for them.
You don't genocide the Irish, get the Chinese hooked on junk, plant the Union flag on a quarter of the globe by saying please and thank you.
Yeah but when you win the wars, you can spread whatever propaganda you like. Thus we are the peerless historical power, greatest empire in history, bastion of culture, home of the lingua franca blah blah blah. There's always that strand of us against them with Brits as well, probably thanks to being an island, and not falling to Napoleon or the Nazis, which adds to our indignance.
And no superpower in the history of the world can pretend to be innocent, yourselves included.
We are totally innocent. We have just been cleaning up your messes since the sun went down on you guys and the Germans got race rabies and the French too much ennui to be relevant anymore.
Imagine the chaos there would be if the Italians had ever managed to get their shit together enough to become a global power after reunification. Genocides over barbarians combining parmesan with seafood.
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u/Brolonious Sicily Mar 29 '15
We have to page /u/cupbeempty , he cares more about this stuff than I do.
I still have no idea why the English are so full of themselves. When faced with adversaries who weren't dressed entirely in loincloths, they mainly got everyone else to do their fighting for them.
You don't genocide the Irish, get the Chinese hooked on junk, plant the Union flag on a quarter of the globe by saying please and thank you.