I�m sorry if my message ofended you, I�m not making a critic for america
being new ( in fact it always was there), I was answering a message I found
ridiculous about Boston history. Every place has a lot of history although
we don�t know it!
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Boston
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 13:08:22 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/22/1999 12:30:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< What an important few centuries of history Boston has!!
> Was anybody there before XVII c.?
> >>
>I've never understood this critique about America's newness... especially
>form someone espousing / pretending a Mod perspective. Just because parts
>of
>Europe, China, wherever, have petrified doggie dung, or medeival
>architecture
>(very cool), does not say too much for that country's relevance or
>importance
>at this point in time. Europe's pride & pomposity over it's history is a
>big
>reason why the mass of innovations have come from elsewhere during the
>modern
>age. (And why the annoying American-bashing is essentially sour grapes).
>Nevertheless, I'm a hopeless Anglophile, Germanophile, Chinoiseaphile,
>etc...and a lover of history.
>
>Are you actually going to tell me that America / Boston has no place in
>history? Would we really be better-off without electricity, transportation,
>telecommunications, computers...oh, silly me, I forgot: America has only
>contributed Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
>
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