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Tango01 | 18 Jun 2014 9:31 p.m. PST |
Resonate in Today's America. "Few Americans today would likely recognize their country at the time of its founding. The first U.S. national census, conducted in 1790, revealed a mostly agrarian population of little more than 3 million people spread across 13 states clustered up and down the eastern seaboard. The typical American life expectancy was less than 50 years. Women were denied fundamental legal protection. Blacks were considered property. And the United States was proud not to have a large standing army. Yet, according to historian David Richards, despite the many things that set the two eras apart, there are some striking parallels between Revolutionary America and our own times. "From our vantage point in history we can appreciate how much things have changed. But, on the other hand, there are many national issues today that remain eerily similar to the problems faced 237 years ago," says Richards, author of the book Swords in Their Hands: George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy. "History not only allows us to appreciate what those before us endured, but also reminds us of the lessons we apparently have yet to learn." Richards has compiled this list of differences (and similarities) between 18th and 21st century America:
" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Supercilius Maximus | 19 Jun 2014 3:24 a.m. PST |
10. Hollywood carries on the fine tradition of the Founding Father in always depicting the British as "the bad guys". ;^) Seriously, some of these links are either pretty tenuous, or extremely inaccurate – for example, the large scale desertions from Washington's army (which were often far in excess of the oft-trumpeted figures for Hessians and British) were indeed a major headache for the Continental Army, but compared with these, the unique case of Bergdahl is hardly threatening the very existence of the US Army; equally, Americans "resisting foreign rule" is a nonsense when they were actually demanding their rights as Englishmen/fellow subjects of the King. The one interesting point was about grammar: in contemporary written English, capitalisation of common, as well as proper, nouns was very much the rule – as it still is in German today. This would have been reinforced by the presence of sizeable German and Dutch minorities in the Colonies, and indeed only began to change in English in late Regency/early Victorian times. |
Big Martin Back | 19 Jun 2014 3:38 a.m. PST |
Even in the 20th century, English continued to use a lot more commas in places where they wouldn't be found today in grammatically correct writing. |
Winston Smith | 19 Jun 2014 4:39 a.m. PST |
SuperMax, are you saying that Tavington was an inaccurate depiction? |
Intrepide | 19 Jun 2014 8:15 a.m. PST |
Rather facile and arbitrary connections. The bizarre case of one (1) Bergdahl set alongside an entire army being underpaid, overtasked, underfed, demoralized and at risk of dissolution? Inconsistent attention to grammar? I bet they farted too, just as we do today. That would round the list to ten. No need to run out of gas at nine. Meh. |
Ironwolf | 19 Jun 2014 8:51 a.m. PST |
I'd have to say congress sticking it to the veterans then and now is pretty much the same. |
Supercilius Maximus | 19 Jun 2014 2:21 p.m. PST |
Always a possibility, Winston, always a possibility. |
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