before i go digging thru all my references to counter with all british political and/or philisophical influences on the american life... (and i loathe researching stuff -- specifically my studies)
what are you actually saying? that, after each of the british items i listed, you still feel france is equal (to england) in terms of "parenting" the US? is it a 3-to-1 split (france being 1/3 the influence that england was)? 25-to-1?
and, if yer basing this belief merely on similar idealologies (as both rebelled from england), does that make ireland or scottland a parent to france?
[ 02-13-2003, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: Rob Kamphausen ]
