civilized Europeans

[joanna bujes]

At 02:04 PM 02/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>WWI and II brought a profound instutional changes to Europe making it,
>inter alia, much less bellicose and much more open, progressive and
>democratic.  US, otoh, has still the antiquated political institutions
>it had during slavery.  That is it.  It is institutions that matter.
>Most people are not bellicose by nature, but become so within a certain
>institutional context.

...You may be right about Europe becoming more open/progressive/democratic 
after WW II internally. But the French in Algeria...

Joanna