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Originally Posted by Cherie
Fair enough but isn't it time we moved on, teaching history is fine but it's history, I remember my grandmother actually hating the English with a passion as her brother had been shot by the Black and Tans, her son went on to marry an English girl and in her later years she relented her position. If we continue to have hang ups based on history we will never move forward, I'd hate to be an Italian on Norwegian as the Romans and the Vikings have a lot to answer for  Should the current English generations hang their head in shame for their colonial past..no, did the British people have any say when Tony Blair took us into Iraq or Cameron involved us in Syria? |
Nobody is suggesting they should, To simply be made aware and acknowledge our history shouldn't be that contentious an issue, unless it's felt that we may from it be perceived in a less than perfect light.
As we know it's every other country that are grasping marauding usurpers... not us.