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Originally Posted by Janszoon
A couple quick comments about this:[LIST][*]Modern France isn't an old country, it's younger than the United States.
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Eh! It's one of the oldest countries in Europe! What you're thinking of is the French Republic, which was just an overhaul of the previous system and hierarchy, but France was still France. It's no different from when Russia became the Soviet Union back in the early 20th century, it was still essentially Russia but with just a load of extra states added on.
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[*]Like the modern British and French people, Americans are also descended from generation after generation of people who come from "states fully used to conflicts", many of them in fact from the two states you just named.
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Yes, but these people that made up the USA came from a multitude of different cultures and backgrounds and then had to forge out a new life in a new environment. You cannot compare that to a European model, which already had a far more established socio/economic mainframe for its people. If you want to make a comparison then somewhere like Australia and even countries like Brazil or Argentina would make much better modern comparisons.