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I fail to see how America would have a more diverse ancestry. Please enlighten me. I am sure that both colonies had the colonists and convicts. Australia also had a massive influx of European settlers, namely Scots, Irish, English, French, Italian, Greek and much more.
Originally posted by Observor
reply to post by daaskapital
But 95% of Australian Aborigines were not wiped out.
Now we are quibbling over percentages? I don't know what percentage were wiped out, but what exactly would be an "acceptable" percentage?
Look, The ordinary US citizen descends from the English as do us Australians. We come from the same motherland, who had a tendency to kill inhabitants of land.
I think the Americans have more diverse ancestry, as far as nationalities go, than Australians, but other than that I agree. And I am not an American.
Originally posted by Flighty
reply to post by daaskapital
Mate we all know America dropping the bomb is what made the Japs surrender.
You may call it sucking up, but I call it gratitude and giving credit where credit is due.
Originally posted by Flighty
reply to post by daaskapital
Mate we all know America dropping the bomb is what made the Japs surrender.
You may call it sucking up, but I call it gratitude and giving credit where credit is due.
I fail to see how America would have a more diverse ancestry. Please enlighten me. I am sure that both colonies had the colonists and convicts. Australia also had a massive influx of European settlers, namely Scots, Irish, English, French, Italian, Greek and much more.
However i feel that we are verging of the topic of this thread, as we should stick with the topic and try not to get embroiled in American and Australian ancestral history
(The Americans won't accept it anyway, they believe they are descended from god, by the way in which they behave).
Originally posted by KillShotMi
reply to post by daaskapital
Are you kidding? Australia contributed less than 8K men to Vietnam... Are you confused, or simply making up facts as you go?
From the time of the arrival of the first members of the Team in 1962 almost 60,000 Australians, including ground troops and air force and navy personnel, served in Vietnam; 521 died as a result of the war and over 3,000 were wounded.
Originally posted by KillShotMi
reply to post by theubermensch
You really do not know very much do you? You read snippets from the internet, then prop yourself up, fabricating intelligence.
The US is not, nor will be a "Greece"
There is such a staggering difference in the two, only a person completely ignorant of global finance could say something like that.
Australia was not invaded by Japan because......... Who cares why? We cant say for sure.. All we can say is, America was an ally that would have sent her men and women into harms way to protect your country!
All of you new age internet hippies drive me crazy. You have ZERO understanding of economics, yet you pick up flash words and opinion pieces, and call them facts...
You act as though America is the end all be all evil of the world. Don't you have elections? Politicians? They all make decisions based on your wants and needs? Do they always do exactly what you would like?
America is still economically strong.(in comparison) We only come across as weak because we set the bar so high for so long.
Unfortunately a few ugly people, just made me decide against that. I don't want to go anywhere, where people hate me, just because of my Govt.s actions over the last 60 years.
Originally posted by KillShotMi
reply to post by theubermensch
How about we watch how it all plays out. Lets see where we are a few years down the road, when someone reins in our spending. It will happen soon enough... We let the ship start leaking, I'll be damned if the American people will let it sink.
Don't let wishful thinking get you kiwi's all excited...
My uncle used to tell me stories about docking in Australia. The women would flock to the ports, basically begging American service men to have them. Apparently beating women was acceptable and a national past time for Aussies. He said the worst American man, treated women better than the Aussies.
I bet the 2500 boys and men at our new base will be very happy.
I figured I would admit my mistake and move on... Apparently admitting you were wrong, means nothing to an angry Aussie. I'm sorry you are so angry.. What ever you do, please don't take that anger out on your family.
Originally posted by KillShotMi
reply to post by theubermensch
How about we watch how it all plays out. Lets see where we are a few years down the road, when someone reins in our spending. It will happen soon enough... We let the ship start leaking, I'll be damned if the American people will let it sink.
Don't let wishful thinking get you kiwi's all excited...
My uncle used to tell me stories about docking in Australia. The women would flock to the ports, basically begging American service men to have them. Apparently beating women was acceptable and a national past time for Aussies. He said the worst American man, treated women better than the Aussies.
I bet the 2500 boys and men at our new base will be very happy.
I figured I would admit my mistake and move on... Apparently admitting you were wrong, means nothing to an angry Aussie. I'm sorry you are so angry.. What ever you do, please don't take that anger out on your family.