Multiculturalism/Ethnic Communities vs. National Communities

[Tisme]

The first rule to gaining wisdom is to forget everything you've ever learnt in school, particularly those related to history, social studies.

To remember how awesome the Poms were from its classrooms... that's like a Chinese student asking what don't China invent first; or the Yank asking what countries they haven't liberated lately, why not.

Didn't Claudius drag a king or rebel queen from Brittania to Rome not too long ago? Both?

Weren't the Roman Republic a... Republic with the Senate and the "commons"? Didn't they steal it from the Greeks?

So how could a colony in the far flung corner of the empire invented anything?

They might have refined it. But that's not exactly along the line of the Chinese inventing gun powder, printing, paper, paper currency, the compass, propaganda.... now is it?

So the Egyptian gunpowder, paper, etc don't count?

 

[luutzu]

So the Egyptian gunpowder, paper, etc don't count?

They have gunpowder? Papyrus don't really count as paper. Too fancy you don't want to just crumble them up at all.

btw, did you know that the Chinese were the world's first astronaut?

There's this Chinese dude who strapped himself to a chair over a fairly big mount of gunpowder.

He was never seen again.

 

[SirRumpole]

He was never seen again.

Bits of him were.

 

[Tisme]

There's this Chinese dude who strapped himself to a chair over a fairly big mount of gunpowder.

He was never seen again.

First takeaway Chinese?