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Old 08-27-2005, 02:05 AM
jaxmike jaxmike is offline
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Default Re: \"Oh. He didn\'t know!..\"

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"if we are so imperialistic, why haven't we expanded our territory more?:

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Under this defintion the British in India or the Soviets in Eastern Europe were't "imperialists" because the territorial boundries of the alleged imperialists remained unchanged, an absurdity. "Imperialism" is when a dominating state aggressively extends its political control over a subservient state. It doesn't require redrawing boundries.

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India was part of the British Empire. The Eastern Bloc were puppet governments under the almost complete control of the Soviet Union.
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