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stewartsage · November 29, 2009, 03:58:51 PM

Back from break, looking down the barrel at a closed library containing books I need.

NejinOniwa · November 29, 2009, 04:20:11 PM

Imma booking mah flight tickets. Nyoro~

Chocofreak13 · November 29, 2009, 06:03:43 PM

cockle: welcome back, yee!
nejin: good for you, do me a favor and remind me to alert the school administration to your arrival. xD
sage: heh, i just got back from spending my break out of state. hope yours went as nice as mine. :3
redmachine: YAY~~~

Ultimaninja · November 29, 2009, 07:35:30 PM

about three more weeks and I am out of school! No more papers, no more tests! I cannot wait!!

maica22010 · November 29, 2009, 08:11:03 PM

I just got done writing my three papers. and I got another one due this week I should start on that soon. I would be exvited about upcoming break but I'll probly be working then too.

NejinOniwa · November 30, 2009, 01:16:55 PM

I watched District 9.

I sweated.
And I cried.
Cried because I know that's just the sort of xenophobic fuckwads that mankind - largely - consists of.

Red-Machine · November 30, 2009, 02:56:30 PM

Aye. And we call ourselves civilised.

I think Britain needs to go back to the 19-century mindset of "We're British. We don't do that sort of thing!" Those were the days!

NejinOniwa · November 30, 2009, 03:33:09 PM

Indeed.

I feel better now though, after reading some about Ramesses II. That's one hell of a man.

Moodswing rating is at 95% today. This could be a bad thing.

Chocofreak13 · December 02, 2009, 07:02:24 PM

i liked victorian england, but not the imperialistic treatment of India. :[

managed to get through the first book of paradise lost. :3

Red-Machine · December 03, 2009, 04:50:08 AM

Actually, it was France and America that treated their colonies like shit. Most of our aquisitions were achieved through monies and voluntary absorbtion. With the exception of the Boer War, of course...

stewartsage · December 03, 2009, 02:58:43 PM

Technically we don't call them colonies....

NejinOniwa · December 03, 2009, 05:04:28 PM

What the hell do you call them? Non-states?

Aurora Borealis · December 03, 2009, 05:09:37 PM

Incidentally, for anthropology class I'm reading about globalization, colonization, and the devastating effects they had on the native people under colonial rule.

IanDanKilmaster · December 03, 2009, 05:14:56 PM

Possessions/Territories... same diff.

They don't have any say in the federal govt. that presides over them (well, if they want, they can leave the island to vote, but fuck that), but hey... no taxes, amirite?

Chocofreak13 · December 03, 2009, 05:26:19 PM

red, i meant it was detrimental to the people; their culture suffered under british rule. (just cause you love your country does not mean you can say it didn't treat some of their colonies like crap!!) not to mention the the general treatment of the people, the racisim, the oppression, the segregation on things as simple as sidewalks.

ist thou forgetting the sepoy rebellion? or the Amritsar massacre? your country firing on thousands of unarmed sikhs in peaceful protest, many of whom were women and children?

meh. don't be like the turkish government. recognize your country's flaws along with its strengths.