Teebaggs1 wrote:
Kukulcan wrote:
usmarine2007 wrote:
Nice try to dodge the fact. That is not what I think, it is what I KNOW.
I mean : you surely have a strong military as some other nations. Does this give you the right to feel superior only basing on the strenght of military ? There are many other things that make great a nation , ill say some :
- Past Culture
- Great History
- Civil Rights
and the list can go on.
Italy has a great culture as the us , but you still have a crime against human mankind , for me : The Capital Law. In italy we abolished it many years ago.
You must be uneducated about your past then. Let's take Caesar and your Roman Empire history for example. The Roman Empire killed thousands if not hundreds of thousands during its existence (and no I'm not just talking about in their wars).
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/romestat.htmNext, shall we take Mussolini? Organized executions of groups of people during the Ethopia conquest - 1920s and 30s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_MussoliniLastly, please eloborate on the "crime on human mankind." I showed you the statistics of Italy vs American war crimes during the Iraq war (a few pages earlier in this discussion) and the number showed that Italy, per soldier in the theatre, had a higher ratio of crimes/rapes/etc then the US...or did you forget to read that part cause it it didn't support your agenda?
If we want to look in the past of our nations i could speak of the fact that your ''land of liberty'' didn't consider the black people human at all?
Italy has a long history , much longer than yours , but this is not the point. Did you know that the roman empire putted the bases for all future civilazition? And that built sewer systems still used nowadays? And roads too , that are still in use. They brought civilization in Europe and middle east.
With strenght , i admit. But if you judge america , your nation , a civil nation , also the Roman Empire was... they are very similar .... imperialism is the key.
During medieval times italy was the center of the culture in europe , we saved the major parts of written texts from roman times and conserved them for the future. If you can read many books of the ancient times is also thank to us.
Italy has always been one of the focal points of culture , in Europe. We have great history.
Just to speak of mussolini , beyond sending our nations to suicide by allying with the Nazis , he did many good things. As render fertile many regions flooded by swamps.
My city , Rimini , has many things from the Roman times , it was the second city after rome itself in europe. We can date some of our buildings to roman times
Can you do the same thing?
You want to speak about italian history? I think a bit more prepared than you in this field... maybe because i AM italian
Last edited by Kukulcan (2007-02-01 15:29:51)