- Moderator
- #201
One thing I do think - we, as Americans can't really understand. We have always been Americans - we founded a country as one people for the most part. The most serious divisions we had were during the civil war. And even with racial and ethnic difficulties - we all consider ourselves Americans first and foremost. You take other countries - the Balkans, the Middle East and you have ancient ethnic groups that have existed as either independent nations, or parts of many other nations depending on the period of history and who conquored what. So, take Iraq...well...Iraqi Kurds might be Kurds first and Iraqi's second. I'm just thinking we have no real concept of this - we've never lived it.