Re: Did you know you can buy land on the moon?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Scott Lowther  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There was very little European about the way the CSA worked, if you look
>> closely; the resemblance was superficial. 
>
>But still far closer to the Euros than the northern USA.

Much closer in substance to the northern USA, actually -- anathema though
the thought was to Southerners -- although some of the appearances were
closer to Europe. 

>> ...the two structures weren't at all similar.  Notably, in
>> Europe, the nobility had ties to the peasants as well as vice-versa.
>
>What, like the Czar and the serfs? Yeah, that was WAAAAAAAAY different
>from the master and slave relationship in the CSA...

Actually, it was; read a bit more history, Scott.  Even slavery -- and
yes, serfdom in Russia was pretty much slavery -- isn't as simple and
standardized and unidirectional a thing as you seem to think.  Slavery in
the CSA was fairly extreme, not a typical example. 

And the discussion was about Western Europe, specifically Britain, since
we were talking about why European nations considered intervening in the
war and why they didn't do it.
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