The version I read was that we actually won our war of Independance. We also actually saved your country's rear end in WWI and WWII. We may not have been United as long as your country has, but we have contributed a lot of inventions and ideas to the world. Not to mention that we made it to the moon and back. :)

I got that rate from family members living in Thailand and working in factories there. They do get paid 50 cents an hour, and do work 6 day weeks at 16 hours a day. They also live in a family house, which is very small, and can have as many as a dozen or more people living there. I went over for a visit in October 2000 and learned these things. So what is your source of information? That they make $5USD/hr and work 8 hour days 5 days a week and live in an air conditioned timeshare? :) They wish, AC is something they cannot afford. Heck their kitchen was outside and they use propane tanks for the stove. If we didn't send them money they wouldn't even have a washing machine, which one of my sister-in-laws use to wash clothes for other people to make extra money. Don't know why they don't have time to wash their own clothes, working 16 hours a day, slackers! :)

Thing is it is not the country or government that is getting hurt here, it is the hard working middle-class citizens who are getting the shaft. People that had nothing to do with Bhopal. There is no justice in that.

but once the Minutemen got organized and started using guerrilla warfare instead of standing up in the battlefields and firing in a straight line until everyone was dead, they started to actualy win battles. The British outnumbered them and used German mercinaries, but the US had France as an ally to help out. After they decided that it was a war that waan't worth winning, the British pulled out and gave up.

So in the version of history that I read, we won the war of independance. We are no longer colonies to England. Also saying that we are the same as England because our roots came from there because of the colonies is a falsehood. The US is a melting pot of people from all over the world. We are all not having roots from Merry Olde England anymore. There is quite an ethic mix of people in the US, so you cannot lump us in with England anymore. To do so would be wrong and politically incorrect.