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Cal33

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8. "It wasn't until around 1220 or so where the English people actually started to think of themselves
Mon May 21, 2012, 06:09 PM
May 2012

as one people>" Not really, and this applies to every nation in the world. There were/are
class differences. The nobility would never intermingle with the commoners, for
instance. And among the non-nobility, there were/are differences according to one's
occupation...etc... right up to the present time. This is still more prominent in England
today than it is in most other countries. It is still rather prevalent in Japan, I hear, where
butchers are at the bottom of the social heap. In India, even though the government is
doing what it can to eliminate the caste system, ancient customs still have not been
entirely eliminated.

If all the people in our country were of the white race, there still would be these differences
as described above, and the national origin differences that existed not so long ago would
probably return again. If there isn't racial, there will be ethnic and class differences.

Some people, especially the sociopaths, just need to feel themselves to be better than
anybody else. This is quite common all over the globe. It isn't confined to the white
race. It's just one of the unpleasant human traits.

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