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I just don't understand the self-loathing that so many people feel because of their history. It's not just Arabs or Indians or Maya or Zapatistas or San Francisco pacifists, it's everywhere!

Instead of being proud of where they are and who they are, they spend every moment of every day foaming about what they could have been except for what their forefathers were hundreds or thousands of years earlier.

I'm proud of who I am, even though my past is tainted by some slaveowners, some American Indians, some Downtrodden Irish drunks, some French-German, and most recent and distrubing....som Yankee blood (shiver!)

But I hope to make the best of it yet, and I thank God every day I was lucky enough to be born in Texas! Now, screw all y'all!

"Instead of being proud of where they are and who they are, they spend every moment of every day foaming about what they could have been except for what their forefathers were hundreds or thousands of years earlier. "

I AM proud of whatever I am. And I am part of India and not British India and thankfully no part of me is British or has even remotely anything to do with it. I AM proud of my rich INDIAN heritage which is several thousand years older then that of Europe. The British Raj is a mere blotch but only for a brief moment when you consider our 15,000 year old history. Whatever we have achieved, we don't owe the credit to anybody. We look at OUR OWN heritage with pride and have no use for someone's else's.

So all ya Brit apologists... screw YOU!