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Originally Posted by egg&chips
I love our continental cousins' energy and attitude when I'm over there Cashy but I think you are right. A lack of history, and an unshared consciousness cannot be he healed by pledging alleigance to the flag every day in school, hence a plague of serial killers and a determination to self preservation based on self arming.
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I've rarely come accross such a crock of horse manure pretending to be a logical argument. Cashy, I believe, is wrong about the US having no history. But his mention of Billy the Kid, and, I suppose, by implication the whole "frontier" mythology is significant. The frontier ... with its gun law, and its glorification of the Clint-like loner who, though basically a good guy, seems to make up his own law as he goes along ... still has a firm grasp on the minds of many Americans.
And, by the way, what do the yanks call Space? You got it; The Final Frontier.