ElTerprise: Thank you :)
It's the perfect job for me at the moment because i can sync it with my classes and to be frank doing those surveys is not difficult ;)
That sounds like a perfect job, one that you are enjoying, that is not too taxing, and that can fit around your classes.
Soccorro: I hope youll spend some of that time with us! :D
Sadly now, I will be spending the time with my partner.
AgentBirdnest: Thanks. I appreciate that :-)
I just started reading "The Last Full Measure", a historical fiction book about the American Civil War (sequel to "The Killer Angels".) I received it as a gift about 3 years ago, but had to pack it in a box because I moved, then forgot about it until recently :"|
I am not always too keen on historical fiction myself, I tend to prefer my history non-fiction, but I know that people enjoy them and I hope you are liking the books.
Can I ask you a question about US history? In US schools, are you taught that during the War of Independence that the US were "slaves" to the British and were fighting for your freedom? I know you are not taught the real reasons behind the war, because it is a lot less romantic than the whole repression and freedom reasons that is in almost every US book and movie about the war, but I was not sure if you were actually taught that you were "slaves".
The reason I ask is that a few days ago my brothers were trying to find a scene from one of the games they used to play and they were watching trailers of games on Youtube, and I just saw a very strange trailer for an Assassin Creed game. Basically, the trailer seemed to be set during the American war of independence, but it has such a ridiculous line in it that it made me laugh. I know it is just a silly game, but I was curious if that is the kind of thing movies and games imply in the US.
What I found funny about this line was that the Americans were in no way slaves, but in the clip you have Washington (at least I think that is who it was) saying all this stuff about not being slaves to the British and the usually stuff about America fighting for freedom (but none of the real reasons the war was fought, such as Americans wanting slavery, religious freedom to have all their cults and things, and of course, money.), and yet Washington himself, and pretty much all of the other "founding fathers", owned many African slaves. Another thing to note is that many of the Southern states in American only really joined in the war on the side of the Americans due to Britain wanting to end slavery, but the Americans, and especially those in the south, did not. In fact, it was nearly 100 years later when America would end slavery. So it just seemed silly to me that they would make it sound like the Americans were slaves, owned by Britain and who were valiantly defending their very liberty, despite the fact this was not the case, and blatantly ignoring the irony of the American leader proclaiming freedom while so many Americans owned literally thousands of actual slaves.
