Fw: OT stupid Welsh and Americans (was Re: Cirris 1000) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Aug 2004

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Thomas" &lt;geoffreythomas(a)onetel.com&gt;
To: "Joe R." &lt;rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com&gt;
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: OT stupid Welsh and Americans (was Re: Cirris 1000)

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 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Joe R." &lt;rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com&gt;
 To: "Geoffrey Thomas" &lt;geoffreythomas(a)onetel.com&gt;om>; "General
Discussion:
 On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
 Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:01 AM
 Subject: Re: OT stupid Welsh and Americans (was Re: Cirris 1000)

 >    Considering the English colonial past, the English don't have the
right
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   to complain
about anything!  Not only see Opium wars, see black slavery
 (who do you think shipped the slaves to America and the Caribeaan in
 exchange for sugar and rum?), Irish potato famine, Endentured Servitude
 (another word for slavery), debitor's prison, scalp bounties (both in  North
 > American and for Australian Aborigines), press gangs (ship's crews). Then
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   go see
American Revolution!

   Now do you REALLY want to get into a debate about English colonial  past????

    My 2 cents worth,
     Joe 
 I'm not English , I'm Welsh - hence my objection to your use of the term
in
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  an offensive (to me ) manner.
 You don't need to tell me about the English colonial past - the Welsh have
 been on the wrong end of it - hence the large migration to the USA to get
 away from them . Hence also the large no. of signatories on the declaration
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  of independence who are of Welsh descent.

 Geoff.