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Thread #57109   Message #901127
Posted By: Forum Lurker
01-Mar-03 - 12:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hart questions Irish Americans
Subject: RE: BS: Hart questions Irish Americans
McBoyne-The Aborigines are now constrained to the least fertile parts of the Australian desert, where they once occupied the fertile areas which Europeans kicked them off of. The Amerindians are still very poor in relation to their Caucasian neighbors, those of them that weren't wiped out by smallpox and war (around 98% of all Amerindian tribes were annihilated by the Europeans).

Industrialization has released the industrialized countries from famine, and drudgery now, having forced that burden squarely onto the rest of the world; during the Industrial Revolution, lifespans dropped by over a decade among the lower class. If you think their quality of life was wonderful, read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.

I'm not even going to try to challenge your assertions about the Irish, because it's clear that that's a subject your bigotry won't let you think rationally about.