On May 6, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Sunday 06 May 2007 20:46, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Is that culture of honor thing more common in previously colonized
>> regions than non-colonized?
>
> Like, say, 18th-century England and France? Places where, if you
> belonged to a
> certain social stratum, you had to go out at the crack of dawn and
> kill or be
> killed if you had an argument over the card-table the night before.
That was: 1) the upper stratum, and 2) 200 years ago.
Doug