Should the empire pay back?

You should also read "The Wretched of the Earth" and "Black Skin, White Masks" by Franz Fanon, who was a Caribbean psychiatrist. He discusses the psychology of black people in white-dominated societies. So you can learn about what SlyPie and the Afro-Caribbean person ( can't remember the name) were talking about. Just because you don't want to believe things doesn't mean they are untrue.

What was wrong with slavery; it was an example of surivival of the fittest. I wish I could reverse many things in History. Another would be not losing the War of Independence; if Britain has the power she once rightfully had, we would be doing a much better job than the "Americans" are doing.

What was wrong with slavery; it was an example of surivival of the fittest. I wish I could reverse many things in History. Another would be not losing the War of Independence; if Britain has the power she once rightfully had, we would be doing a much better job than the "Americans" are doing.

I have nothing against Stanford. They are a top class University, with an environment of learning and self-cultivation. I despise Berkeley, however. Some of the comments made there have been extremely hurtful to people like me, and I would prefer not to discuss them.

I have nothing against Stanford. They are a top class University, with an environment of learning and self-cultivation. I despise Berkeley, however. Some of the comments made there have been extremely hurtful to people like me, and I would prefer not to discuss them.

Also, the insults on top universities like Stanford and Berkeley for being supposedly poor based on having SOME liberal faculty is just immature. You all know they are fabulous unis. If you had seen my post in another forum called "rate my uni" you can see my experience @ Magdalen College Oxford for 6 months, where I was praised as a genius by nearly every tutor and lecturer and scored "alphas" across the board. If my Stanford education is so rubbish (which is must be, since it's an American uni, according to you people), why was I outperforming Oxford's famed PPE students at one of the uni's top colleges?

Considering that Britain couldn't maintain sovereignty over Canada and Australia, I doubt it would be able to maintain sovereignty over the US, even if it didn't lose the American Revolution.

You can't base the standard of universities on one person's experience, but the following table will assist:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1550883,00.html

Come to think of it, I don't think there is any need for repatriations... minorities will be runnning western countries in roughly 50 years time anyway.

True. China will probably blow up the western world while we still sit around dallying with sports and food.

Why would China blow us up when it can clobber us into economic submission?

Is that with carrots and sticks? Because that would hurt......

Why would China blow us up when it can clobber us into economic submission?

Hah..they don't even need to clobber us.

The education in the Western world below the university level is so crappy that we will naturally become economically dependent on China.

And that is when I disregard my other half and pretend not to speak English.