Significant?

Originally Posted by Beestie

1)I flunked history in high school
2)I skated past my college humanities requirements by taking an experimental studies class on the use of archetypes in the top 10 songs featured on MTV in 1999.
3)In my adult life I now labor under the delusion that I can hide my lack of education and general intellectual laziness beneath a facade of arrogance.

Nice try, kid. Give it 30 more years when the people like me who remember Chiang Kai-Shek, know something about the war in Burma during WWII, have heard the name "Mao Tse Tsung", and know the reasons why the US fought in the Korean War are dead.

At that point you can lean on your expensive private or charter school to skip right on by a few lousey 50 -100 years of US/Asian history, wave bye bye to your children as they trudge off to their jobs at Wally World, and open up a letter from the department of defense informing you that your grandson has just been killed attempting to save Alaska from invasion by the Chinese army.

But what the hell? At least you will have been spared cracking the spine of a history book.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I think today's reality is that the Chinese leaders are too busy trying to control their own people and keep themselves in power to worry about expanding their borders.
Oh,....Taiwan comes under the former.

[d1x1e]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I think today's reality is that the Chinese leaders are too busy trying to control their own people and keep themselves in power to worry about expanding their borders.

not a bit of wonder they feel empathy for the bush government.