- 16 Nov 2012 15:32
#14108000
Anyone Noticed any similarities between the two?
1912 America:
-quickly growing Economy
-Awful pollution
-Spanish-American war shifts balance of power,
introduces US as a world power by defeating a
previous power whose control has long passed
-Expert at battleship diplomacy an imperialism,
forces open trade with Japan
2012 China:
-Quickly Growing economy
-2008 Olympians needed to wear respirators
so they didn't inhale toxicants
-many nationalists want to go to war with Japan,
whose last major power was in 1945
-Sends Patrols by disputed Islands in hopes of new
claims without war.
Of course, these are due to different causes, but the effects are the same
1912 America:
-quickly growing Economy
-Awful pollution
-Spanish-American war shifts balance of power,
introduces US as a world power by defeating a
previous power whose control has long passed
-Expert at battleship diplomacy an imperialism,
forces open trade with Japan
2012 China:
-Quickly Growing economy
-2008 Olympians needed to wear respirators
so they didn't inhale toxicants
-many nationalists want to go to war with Japan,
whose last major power was in 1945
-Sends Patrols by disputed Islands in hopes of new
claims without war.
Of course, these are due to different causes, but the effects are the same
You see, Mebbekew, satire is fun until the dart strikes at home. -Nafai, The Memory of Earth