Re: Career questions: databases

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:46899de5$0$4325$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...
> Bruce C. Baker wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>>And two, Brits don't know nothing. If they did, then they wouldn't have
>>>>lost
>>>>their world empire, and wouldn't have needed us to bail them out in
>>>>WWII.
>>>
>>>Let's take that discussion further.
>>>Wherever the white man goes, everything is left is ruins. Starting
>>>from the colonial times and following to the present day, consider
>>>reading the histories of the Indian subcontinent, South America,
>>>Africa, the Middle East, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, with perhaps Iran
>>>and Venezuela to follow. And let's not even talk about the Red
>>>Indians.
>>
>> Sorry, old boy, but actually it's "Wherever the white man has /departed/,
>> everything is in ruins." Seems that while the natives are capable of
>> enjoying the fruits of civilization, they aren't quite capable of
>> maintaining it. Pity, really.
>>
>> <snip>
>
> Even that isn't necessarily true: see Japan.

Quite right, Bob; I forgot Japan. BUT, can you name another non-European country that has adopted western ways so well? Received on Tue Jul 03 2007 - 03:19:50 CEST