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--- Quote from: eti on March 24, 2023, 01:41:23 am ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on March 24, 2023, 01:16:41 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on March 24, 2023, 01:05:22 am ---We Brits started the Industrial Revolution. Americans built upon it, and at some point down the line the Chinese cloned it all. Look at the most used and prominent inventions used every day - the majority were invented here in the UK. Before any Americans pipe up and claim said inventions, remember, we have been here many many hundreds of years before todays’ America came to be - we discovered you in 1492!
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"You" discovered America!

 :-DD

You have your countries mixed up! Besides ... how can you "discover" a continent where there are already human beings inhabiting it - it's already been discovered! :-DD

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Well clearly not me personally

Some basic history lessons will show you that Christopher Columbus - a Brit - discovered America. OBVIOUSLY the people who were natives didn’t “discover” it any more than I’d “discover” my own feet - I’ve always had them just as they’d always lived there - NATIVE - that’s the clue.

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It's ignorant, jingoistic bollocks like this that make me embarrassed to be British.

Read a fucking history book, for fucks sake.

daqq:

--- Quote from: eti on March 24, 2023, 01:05:22 am ---What have they actually invented  of technological worth that is uniquely from China? Not much. Noodles? Fireworks?
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Oh dear, who's gonna tell him?

Kasper:

--- Quote from: eti on March 24, 2023, 01:41:23 am ---Some basic history lessons will show you that Christopher Columbus - a Brit - discovered America. OBVIOUSLY the people who were natives didn’t “discover” it any more than I’d “discover” my own feet - I’ve always had them just as they’d always lived there - NATIVE - that’s the clue.

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Using CAPS and adding 'OBVIOUS' does not make you correct.  They used to be called Indians, some still are, does that means they are from India?  No, it means the people making up the names have zero credibility. 

Bud:

--- Quote from: daqq on March 24, 2023, 05:51:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: eti on March 24, 2023, 01:05:22 am ---What have they actually invented  of technological worth that is uniquely from China? Not much. Noodles? Fireworks?
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Oh dear, who's gonna tell him?

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Silk, gunpowder and,well,china?  :popcorn:

Kasper:

--- Quote from: Bud on March 24, 2023, 08:21:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: daqq on March 24, 2023, 05:51:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: eti on March 24, 2023, 01:05:22 am ---What have they actually invented  of technological worth that is uniquely from China? Not much. Noodles? Fireworks?
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Oh dear, who's gonna tell him?

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Silk, gunpowder and,well,china?  :popcorn:

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The tea cup may count as negative technological worth.


--- Quote from: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/did-the-teacup-hinder-chinese-scientific-progress-fd55ed9498c8 ---The argument presented goes something like this: Since the Chinese invented porcelain teacups early, they saw no need to invent glass to have something to drink from. Europeans in contrast didn’t have porcelain, but drank wine rather than tea. Glass is not very well suited for hot tea, but very well suited for temperate red and white wine. With glass, you can see the beautiful color of the wine. Thus, Europeans invented glass for their wine drinking habits. Glass led to lens grinding, which led to spectacles, telescopes, microscopes, beakers, and bottles used in chemistry. In short, glass powered the scientific revolution in Europe and China got left out.

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