Is that EOTL in da middle?
Why are racists and misogynists allowed on this forum?
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The first time you ever heard the term projecting was from me talking about you.
You worthless piece of shit....
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Ah you poor thing, you are still hurt, I should have bought you flowers.
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Maybe it's just PMS?
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Anderson Cooper Overcome With Emotion After Coronavirus Patient's Sweet Message
The CNN anchor welled up over the well-wishes for himself and his son, Wyatt.
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You certainly are compensating for something. I hope the release of your emotions in here helps you in your day to day life. You certainly have a lot of pent up frustrations, that you make obvious. Let it out, it's good for you. Maybe someday you will be able to stop play acting and gain some real confidence.Maybe it's just PMS?
Anderson Cooper Overcome With Emotion After Coronavirus Patient's Sweet Message
The CNN anchor welled up over the well-wishes for himself and his son, Wyatt.
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Yeah... we know... special rules for "them". No accountability anywhere.
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Montrezl Harrell apologizes for calling Luka Doncic “b****-a** white boy”
Let's just jump straight to the question that always comes up: What if Doncic called Harrel a "b****-a** Black boy"?
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Maybe I should cry like Andy... release my emotions. Is that what all the ladies do?
Forget the flowers just pull your nose out of my ass....
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LOL! You follow me around like a hurt bitch and then claim the opposite, typical.
Your projecting......again...!
And with an internet tear in your post.
Poor Poor Baby....Now go wipe yur ass.
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Why are there so many Indians and Arabs in London? Why are there so many Spanish-speaking people in the United States? Why are there so many Indonesians in the Netherlands?
Empire.
When a nation becomes an empire, it ceases to be what it once was. Empires can decay and fall. But they never return to what they were before.
There are so many Indians in London, in part, because Britain once ruled India. Britain’s influence also extended across much of the Middle East.
There are so many Spanish-speaking people in the United States, in part, because the United States conquered a vast portion of Mexico, annexed Puerto Rico, and exercised enormous political and economic influence throughout Latin America.
And there are people of Indonesian descent in the Netherlands because the Dutch once ruled Indonesia. When Indonesia became independent, many people with ties to the colonial system, particularly those of mixed Dutch-Indonesian ancestry, migrated to the Netherlands.
The nation-state, as we have come to think of it, is a relatively recent development in world history. The Greek word for nation, ethnos, from which we get ethnic, referred to a people. For much of history, peoples understood themselves through some combination of common ancestry, language, customs, religion, and territory.
The Romans, for example, were originally a people centered on the city of Rome and its surrounding territory. They spoke Latin. But as Rome expanded, it incorporated peoples who spoke other languages, worshiped other gods, and possessed different customs.
Rome became an empire.
An empire may begin with a particular people, but it eventually incorporates other peoples, religions, and languages under a common political authority. For a long time, the people who established the empire call the shots.
Gradually, however, things change.
The peoples brought into the empire learn its language, adopt elements of its culture, and participate in its institutions. They marry into families descended from the original population. They accumulate wealth, influence, and political power. Their children and grandchildren may eventually feel more at home in the imperial culture than in the cultures of their ancestors.
And then something predictable happens.
Some members of the original population become alarmed. They begin to fear that their country is being taken away from them. They want to recover what they imagine their country once was.
We can see variations of this anxiety throughout history. We see it in the biblical account of Egypt’s fear of the growing Hebrew population. We see it in the tensions between Rome and the peoples who settled within its borders. We see it in modern Britain’s struggles over immigration and national identity.
And we see it today in the United States.
For centuries, Europeans and Americans sent soldiers, merchants, missionaries, and eventually corporations into other parts of the world. They established governments, schools, businesses, and churches. They spread their languages and customs.
In the American case, we also exported our culture through movies, music, television, and, more recently, digital media.
We invited much of the world, sometimes deliberately and sometimes without considering the consequences, to participate in our civilization.
People abroad learned our language, adopted elements of our religion, absorbed our entertainment, and came to understand themselves partly through the cultural world we had created. Many retained deep roots in their own traditions, but they also developed ties to ours.
And eventually, millions decided to move closer to the source.
This is one of the enduring consequences of empire. The movement of influence outward is eventually accompanied by the movement of people inward.
We may imagine that our country was once a settled, culturally uniform nation that has only recently been disrupted by outsiders. But our own history tells a different story.
The United States did not simply remain within its original boundaries. It expanded across a continent, absorbed territories inhabited by other peoples, projected military and economic power abroad, and became one of the most influential cultural forces in human history.
We cannot reasonably expect that history to have transformed everyone else while leaving us unchanged.
John Quincy Adams understood that American expansion would have consequences for the character of the republic. He told us that the acquisition of French America raised questions about what kind of nation the United States was becoming, and whether its original cultural identity could survive territorial expansion.
Those questions were never answered. But they didn’t go away either.
Of course, not every migration can be explained by empire. People move because of poverty, war, persecution, family ties, opportunity, and countless other reasons. But the nature of empire helps explain why particular peoples move toward particular countries, why they already know the language when they arrive, and why they often feel connected to societies in which they have never lived.
There is no need to imagine some sinister conspiracy behind all this. It is not, in itself, a plot or an invasion. Much of it is the long-delayed consequence of decisions made by our grandparents and their grandparents over the course of centuries.
And we are not going to reverse those decisions by pretending they never happened.
An empire changes the people it governs. But it also changes the people who govern it.
That is the part we tend to forget.
So, the only way forward is to envision a way forward.
There is simply no path for untangling the effects of empire.
Empire.
When a nation becomes an empire, it ceases to be what it once was. Empires can decay and fall. But they never return to what they were before.
There are so many Indians in London, in part, because Britain once ruled India. Britain’s influence also extended across much of the Middle East.
There are so many Spanish-speaking people in the United States, in part, because the United States conquered a vast portion of Mexico, annexed Puerto Rico, and exercised enormous political and economic influence throughout Latin America.
And there are people of Indonesian descent in the Netherlands because the Dutch once ruled Indonesia. When Indonesia became independent, many people with ties to the colonial system, particularly those of mixed Dutch-Indonesian ancestry, migrated to the Netherlands.
The nation-state, as we have come to think of it, is a relatively recent development in world history. The Greek word for nation, ethnos, from which we get ethnic, referred to a people. For much of history, peoples understood themselves through some combination of common ancestry, language, customs, religion, and territory.
The Romans, for example, were originally a people centered on the city of Rome and its surrounding territory. They spoke Latin. But as Rome expanded, it incorporated peoples who spoke other languages, worshiped other gods, and possessed different customs.
Rome became an empire.
An empire may begin with a particular people, but it eventually incorporates other peoples, religions, and languages under a common political authority. For a long time, the people who established the empire call the shots.
Gradually, however, things change.
The peoples brought into the empire learn its language, adopt elements of its culture, and participate in its institutions. They marry into families descended from the original population. They accumulate wealth, influence, and political power. Their children and grandchildren may eventually feel more at home in the imperial culture than in the cultures of their ancestors.
And then something predictable happens.
Some members of the original population become alarmed. They begin to fear that their country is being taken away from them. They want to recover what they imagine their country once was.
We can see variations of this anxiety throughout history. We see it in the biblical account of Egypt’s fear of the growing Hebrew population. We see it in the tensions between Rome and the peoples who settled within its borders. We see it in modern Britain’s struggles over immigration and national identity.
And we see it today in the United States.
For centuries, Europeans and Americans sent soldiers, merchants, missionaries, and eventually corporations into other parts of the world. They established governments, schools, businesses, and churches. They spread their languages and customs.
In the American case, we also exported our culture through movies, music, television, and, more recently, digital media.
We invited much of the world, sometimes deliberately and sometimes without considering the consequences, to participate in our civilization.
People abroad learned our language, adopted elements of our religion, absorbed our entertainment, and came to understand themselves partly through the cultural world we had created. Many retained deep roots in their own traditions, but they also developed ties to ours.
And eventually, millions decided to move closer to the source.
This is one of the enduring consequences of empire. The movement of influence outward is eventually accompanied by the movement of people inward.
We may imagine that our country was once a settled, culturally uniform nation that has only recently been disrupted by outsiders. But our own history tells a different story.
The United States did not simply remain within its original boundaries. It expanded across a continent, absorbed territories inhabited by other peoples, projected military and economic power abroad, and became one of the most influential cultural forces in human history.
We cannot reasonably expect that history to have transformed everyone else while leaving us unchanged.
John Quincy Adams understood that American expansion would have consequences for the character of the republic. He told us that the acquisition of French America raised questions about what kind of nation the United States was becoming, and whether its original cultural identity could survive territorial expansion.
Those questions were never answered. But they didn’t go away either.
Of course, not every migration can be explained by empire. People move because of poverty, war, persecution, family ties, opportunity, and countless other reasons. But the nature of empire helps explain why particular peoples move toward particular countries, why they already know the language when they arrive, and why they often feel connected to societies in which they have never lived.
There is no need to imagine some sinister conspiracy behind all this. It is not, in itself, a plot or an invasion. Much of it is the long-delayed consequence of decisions made by our grandparents and their grandparents over the course of centuries.
And we are not going to reverse those decisions by pretending they never happened.
An empire changes the people it governs. But it also changes the people who govern it.
That is the part we tend to forget.
So, the only way forward is to envision a way forward.
There is simply no path for untangling the effects of empire.