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38 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Obama And Netanyahu In... · 1 reply · +1 points
By that logic then most of people born in the mid to late 70's and 80's would be Gen-Y, right?
The thing is that Obama born in '61 has little cultural or social connections with children born in the mid to late 1970's. He would have had a far different experience (had he been raised entirely in the USA) than what are traditionally accepted Gen-Xers.
I am not exactly sure Generation Dynamics has all the answers either, but I do find your posts thought provoking, even if I disagree on some of the conclusions.
38 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Obama And Netanyahu In... · 3 replies · +1 points
"And so watching and listening to the speech on Thursday by the youthful *Gen-Xer* President Barack Obama, I felt a sense of déja vu."
Obama was born in 1961, he's not a Gen-Xer by any stretch, he's a boomer (or Jones-er for those who prefer that title). Don't even try to lump him in with my generation...
38 weeks ago @ Big Government - Louisiana Abortion Cli... · 0 replies · +2 points
39 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Bin Laden's Mistake Wa... · 1 reply · +7 points
59 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Report Your Neighbors ... · 0 replies · +6 points
64 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Re-Examining the Origi... · 0 replies · +2 points
64 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Re-Examining the Origi... · 0 replies · +6 points
They spend hours on Rome, the Vikings, and WWII, why? Because if they actually covered stuff about the Italian City States, the Hansa, or Medieval Urban life they'd have to cover such topics as: Capitalism, Democracy, and the foundations of the Modern Society we live in. That would really go head to head against the Communist Manifesto view of History they push. Besides the fact that they get a great deal of History utterly wrong.
64 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Re-Examining the Origi... · 3 replies · +11 points
Nowadays this view has dissolved, and we see that the Knight (or King) wasn't as virtuous, the peasant far cleaner, and the maiden was technically some other Lord's wife. Pirenne is an awesome read, and he, Marc Bloc and the Gies have done yeoman's work on changing attitudes about our medieval ancestors (who as it was, were more like us than we admit).
82 weeks ago @ Big Peace - Arab TV Broadcasts Tim... · 0 replies · +2 points
So if you don't blow up the infidel, it was God's will. If you crash a plane into the WTC, again God's will. You as a person really didn't have a choice in the matter. Since you don't have a choice, if it happens, God wanted it to, if it doesn't God didn't want it to happen. It is kind of nifty since you never have to take responsibility for the result, since it was all God's decision anyway...
I hope this makes more sense... Wiki page if anyone cares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshallah
108 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - The Wrap: Cameron Clai... · 2 replies · +1 points
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