Lighter Skin = Better?

[Rahul]

And do you believe that these slaves are really loyal to you? As though as any slave, one day, they will serve another master, when the time comes.

You need to brush up on current events. Slavery was illegalized in our country 148 years ago.

Don't sell African-Americans short. They have a rich cultural identity. They have fought along side of us in every war our country has had. African-Americans are part of the rich tapestry of our nation.

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Well, I don't see it happening any other way, being colonists, from many different ethnicities, along with a bunch of slaves and natives on your back, I can't see them creating a state that derives its history and consciousness on any of the known, established nations on the earth.

We were vassals of the English. There was no reason to believe that we should have created the Nation that we did.

Being far away from the troubles of Europe, not stricken with endless war, only dealing with a few natives who did not have the advantage of a supply of colonists from the old world, who had weapons of iron.

Part of our greatness is that we are a nation descended from those who did not sit at home but struck out to new lands to find their fortune. The people in the Old World are descended from those that just played it safe and stayed home.

I see, though I believe that most of the ones you've mentioned there were in actuality "freed peasants" in their own way, since they had no obligation to serve a landlord in exchange for the right to stay.

Yep, freed peasants led by great and learned men.

As were mine. Though I cannot see any of these applying now to land of Burger King, Mc Donalds, and the said means of pursuing happiness in forms of drugs, lax sexual relations and of course, consumerism.

Yes. America is the worst nation on Earth. Except for all the others on the planet.

Obviously your foundation was flawed, as you took in more and more people who came there for the sake of their selfish desires, such as those who rejected their own national identity for simply higher living standards, those who have traded their own names for your names, those who have traded their own history and culture for your non-existent, artificial and put together culture.

We brought our names with us. My last name is actually Welsh in origin.

It's not selfish desires to seek a better life at great odds. It's actually brave as shit.

As I have said in a different thread, you even refuse to grand health care to your less fortunate countrymen, for many of you are unwilling to part with their wealth, for that is what your country teaches their citizens....

Yeah, the Republicans. They're on the wane.

Revel in these days, as the world has seen many empires come and go, and I believe that your end will be a very painful one, as the only glue that holds you together is "the pursuit of happiness". But once happiness is gone(and it just might, friend), what will you do? What will hold you together?

Empires go, huh? Like the empire your country used to be? You live in a fragment of a part of a dead empire. Turkey has seen better days, friend.

We're still kicking ass and getting stronger.

I've visited Turkey before you know. Ah, the calls of "My friend! My friend!" as the locals tried to sell me stuff. And you know what kind of stuff they tried to sell me on every street corner?

Americana merchandise.

I had to specifically ask for Turkish stuff because I didn't travel half way across the world to buy images of Elvis.