--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > Should Italians also complain about the movie becouse it makes their > > distant ansesters look bad? > > > I think that current Italians bear no relation to the Romans, except that > they live in the same place and speak a Latin-derived language. Italy > was swept by many invasions after the Fall of Roma. > > > If a group of Jews make a movie about WWII in the year 3950 will > > there be Germans complaining that it sheds them in a bad light? > > > By 3950... no! By 2050, Germany will be a part of Turkey :-)
History is ripe with cultural genocide, either the intentional kind you speak of above or the unintentional you speak of below. The Frech and the Austrailians seem to be the only ones concerned about it... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
