Posted by sigismund on September 23, 2013, at 20:13:42
In reply to Re: Lincoln, posted by baseball55 on September 23, 2013, at 20:00:56
I think my interest comes from the fact that I grew up in the country where only 50 years before the last of the indigenous people were removed. Our forgetting and creation (of us) story was the basis of our brittle respectability.
In those days we thought of ourselves in the same boat as South Africa, but with thankfully fewer blacks. But with agile movement we made a narrow escape.
Australian history was so boring back then....free trade vs protectionism. Nothing about, for example, how Woodrow Wilson wanted the Australians on board for the League of Nations and so rejected the Japanese demand at Versailles for a racial equality clause, leaving them up the end of the table opposite Guatemala and Ecuador. Where the conversation would have had to be better than listening to Billy Hughes going on about c**ns or Clemenceau on how terrible it was to be trapped in a city with only Japanese women.
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