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Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders?
freakxx writes "Seven new 'wonders of the world' have been announced today in a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal. People throughout the world have voted actively to elect the new 7 out of 21 finalists.
The final lineup is: Chichen Itza, Mexico; Christ Redeemer, Brazil; The Great Wall, China; Machu Picchu, Peru; Petra, Jordan; The Roman Colosseum, Italy; and The Taj Mahal, India. The Pyramids of Giza was the only candidate that used to be among the original seven wonders. Did we really need seven new wonders of the world? Why was this decided via a website poll (pdf) and SMS messages?"
The Statue of Liberty in New York City was stolen to France by the norteamerican bandids/gansters.
Give back the Statue of Liberty to France!!!
The Queen of the Statue of Liberty is française, not newyorkian.
How you bring this foreigner woman to New York City is she is not newyorkian?
No problem, we had changed her nationality to newyorkian faking the française nationality.
'and each country should be allowed the opportunity to show off at least one thing that they are all proud of'
I'd agree, so long as we all agree that the European Union is really one large country milking the benefits of pretending its small individual member states are worthy of being called countries. When the states united under a universal government and called it the United States, the rest of the world stop recognizing the individual states as sovereign nations in themselves. When the member states of the Soviet Union were joined under a central government the same occured. This is also true of the states of Canada. The European Union has a centralized government and a centralized bank, why should its member states be recognized globally as if they weren't as much part of a single entity as the states in the US?
And don't bother with the fact that they have individual governments as well. So do the states of the US, the states of canada, and the states of the former soviet union. If the EU gets to have a seat in international bodies like the UN for each of its member states then the individual state governments of the various member states that compose the US should each get a seat. In fact, I think this would better represent the US by far and would eliminate the need for the national government to have a seat or veto powers.
George W. Bush has lost his U.S. Presidential One Dollar Coin.
Please, put the bad story of 07-07-07 to this Statue_of_Liberty
Thanks!
Who claims the property of this invented Statue of Liberty Horrourous? France or USofA?
Paradoxically, if i buy an Intel chip with Windows OS then all this buyed is mine and can replicate it small-scaling?
Or the french men had given them this expensive gift of Statue of Liberty Horrourous?
After 9/11, the Statue of Liberty Horrourous has received 0 rich visitors of the 1+7 wonders of world because of the guiltyness of the terrorists's attacks.
Thanks terrorists to this massive misvotetion of the newyorkians that frequently unvisit the Green Barbie Lady.
'"certainly met the criteria" == "we could have if we had wanted to, but we didn't get round to doing anything about it"'
A nation is a nation, it isn't a matter of 'didn't get around to it'. I listed nations that recognized the colonies by having relations with the colonies. I also listed states that were independent nations when they chose to join the union. More importantly any political entity which is not subject to another is without question a nation and the colonies were all independent political entities.
'And you seemed to do a pretty good job of getting rid of those American Indian nations that you proudly refer to as proof of your long history so that they are now left with parcels of land of your choosing to live on as best they can under your rules.'
Nonsense. 'You' INCLUDES the american indians who are full citizens and are free to live anywhere they choose. In addition to having the same rights every other american has they also have lands in which they have sovereign authority and government subsidies.
'We' are not just the french and english who formed colonies. We includes the american indians, the french settlors, the africans who have chosen to stay here after the slave trade was abolished, political refuges from around the world (including former puritans, jews, chinese, and cubans), and people from throughout the world looking for better fortunes. If you count european nations that really no longer exist because they happened to be in the same places then you have to admit that the 'new world' was only new to Europeans and no matter what Europeans thought at the time the world was not REALLY defined by their awareness.
'But rather than interfere (again) in how foreign countries do things why don't you do something in the one country where you have a right to be heard?'
We aren't discussing internal matters. We are discussing international bodies. Each US state has comparable population, economy, and military power to a European state; I fail to see how they are entitled to a louder voice than comparable entities.
'Start a movement to split it into a much larger number of smaller countries.'
It already is. The United States is multi-state body composed by 50 independent states. Just as the European Union is a multi-state body composed by independent states. The states have combined to form a single government that all lend ear to while retaining independence. Just like the states of the European Union.
Regardless of how you choose to view it, all independent political entities that are not under the jurisdiction of other political entities amount to the same thing. It doesn't matter if you choose to view them differently or call some countries and others states and somehow view them differently. The European Union is a single political entity, it really doesn't matter what degree of autonomy the states retain interally. Either a union of individual states is still to be recognized as individual states FOR THE PURPOSE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (IE, the UN, the WTO, etc) or not. Europe is only one of many regions that participate in these bodies, it really isn't up to Europe.
'you don't have to be an idiot'
Is 'nuh uh' and 'you're an idiot' really the best you can come up with? I will do decent Europeans a favor and assume you don't speak for them.
'I mean no offence to the millions of other decent Americans, but you seem to be one of the exceptions that proves the rule.'
And what rule is that? Those who don't have a chip on their shoulder and subscribe to your variety of bigotry actually don't know what ridiculous assumptions about americans forms the basis of the rule you refer to.