07-13-2003, 12:27 PM | #1 |
Elven Warrior
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Independance Day:- A Black Day for Brits?
I'm a U.K. subject but have found it hard to gauge the attitude of Brits toward Independance Day. Certainly there were no mass celebrations or any visible sign of happiness but do we feel a sense of loss or do we let take the attitude its long in the past and we should not feel anything? Or should we join in the celebrations for people who fought and blew up our ancestors?
I also saw a statement somewhere, can't remember exactly where, saying that slavery was abolished in the British Empire 30 years before it was in the U.S? That true?
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