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Old July 27th, 2008, 05:05 PM   #10 (permalink)
EerieVon
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Oh man, talk about a 200+ year old grudge. Every Brit I've ever encountered, wherever I was in the world, is STILL bitter about the War of Independence.

It's true that history is written by the wealthy white man, and there definitely are NONE of those in Great Britain, right?
I dont think its so much the actual war itself but the fact that America has unseated England as a superpower and the once mighty English Empire has to accept that its child is now more powerful than she
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