Re:'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth
by otherme123 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:02AM
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And we europeans consider them young. What we are pointing is that people in US (and America in general) talks about pre-1776 stuff as they were prehistoric, and pre-1900 stuff as they were comparable to Roman ruins. Add to that that we love to bomb each other to a ruble, and buildings and countries younger than 200 years are viewed as temporary stuff. Nothing pedantic or snobby here, just pointing that we live in different scenarios that affected our views.
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Re:'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth
by rootusrootus on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:08PM
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> pre-1900 stuff as they were comparable to Roman ruins
I get your point, but it's maybe not quite this bad. I grew up in a city where most homes were built in ~1900, with a number from before then. And this is on the west coast, there are lots of even older structures on the east coast.
> Nothing pedantic or snobby here
I wasn't describing you as pedantic, I was referring to myself, since I was about to observe that a number of European countries are technically young by government age. There is obviously a lot of nuance there, and long history, but hey, there have been people inhabiting North America well before the USA became a thing too.