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#226 2013-08-17 04:02:29

fxh
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Re: Differences between American and English style

 

#227 2013-08-17 04:32:56

fxh
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Re: Differences between American and English style

The Puritans went to USA not to encourage religious tolerance and freedom but to stifle it for others and only allow their version.
At their core anti catholic they are Puritans not to describe their wowser ways but to define their pure - ism in the church of Anglican Protestantism. They were also Calvinists who believe that the supreme being , God , (only one) in this case, bestows on those who are in grace with rewards here on earth.  Rewards such as material wealth are a sign that you are in grace with the lord and a reward for hard work and a "personal relationship with the lord".

Hardly anti-USA capitalism.
In fact almost  necessary precondition, or at least a benign environment, for the most Puritan influenced nation I can think of. The integration of demonology and millennialism, core calvanist/puritan values,  are reinforced by, and deeply embedded, in the structures of American society.

 

#228 2013-08-17 06:45:51

Dudley Clarke
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Re: Differences between American and English style


I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#229 2013-08-17 06:49:25

doghouse
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Re: Differences between American and English style


Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#230 2013-08-17 06:59:15

fxh
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Re: Differences between American and English style

doggie - you clearly cannot acknowledge what all know,  that I am the de Tocqueville of this forum, or perhaps, indeed, of these times

 

#231 2013-08-17 07:09:00

Jeff Reed
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Re: Differences between American and English style

Tocqueville had a very poor understanding of America. It was a hack job. That he persists in being used by so many as a serious commentator is a mystery. The criticism of his work and methods has been around for a long time.

 

#232 2013-08-17 07:18:53

doghouse
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Re: Differences between American and English style

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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#233 2013-08-17 07:25:02

formby
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Re: Differences between American and English style


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#234 2013-08-17 07:39:00

Jeff Reed
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#235 2013-08-17 07:43:21

fxh
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Re: Differences between American and English style

 

#236 2013-08-17 07:52:14

formby
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Re: Differences between American and English style

There are several writers/thinkers you could quote: Conrad Cherry and Herman Melville and his notion of a 'chosen people' immediately come to mind.


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#237 2013-08-17 07:53:57

formby
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Re: Differences between American and English style


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#238 2013-08-17 07:54:35

doghouse
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Re: Differences between American and English style


Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#239 2013-08-17 08:22:43

fxh
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Re: Differences between American and English style

 

#240 2013-08-17 08:29:04

doghouse
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Re: Differences between American and English style


Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#241 2013-08-17 08:31:54

fxh
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Re: Differences between American and English style

 

#242 2013-08-23 23:01:23

Chévere
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Re: Differences between American and English style

FXH- yer right about deToqueville.
I read him my freshman year of college, coincidentally my first year in the US. It was like I was handed down a guide to the culture. It was the early 70's and everybody was walking around and talking like we were entering the age of aquarius and all I kept thinking was how did this frenchman know so much about my era?


Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.

 

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