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Re:The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good by mc32 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @08:47PM (#11214513)
One could argue the English could have held a grudge against their subjugators in the manifestation of the Normans who took all the English lands and made it their own as well as foisted their new-to-them old French influenced Norman language. They could have held that grudge but they didn't. They subjugated and were coöpted by the Normans and then forming this new hybrid identity went on to become one of the greatest empires on Earth. Had they gone with the precursors and the likes of Winstanley I'm not certain they'd have accomplished so much and the English the Anglosphere begot by said empire would not exist today nor the world we enjoy today.

The world would be much more fragmented, if not more Frankish and perhaps Spanish.

Re:The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good by abiox on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @09:17PM (#11214621)
to this very day they still have all those extra U's and -re's instead of -er's. ;_;

can't say i'm all that romantic about notions of empire, though.

Re:The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good by mc32 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @10:18PM (#11214813)
No, but empire did set the stage for the world we have today and the set of people we have today. In other words the rebirth of the West and the focus away from state (serf-lord) and religion to science and advancement (progress) results in us (the whole set of people alive today), the product.