Is the English speaking world in decline ?

**CUSP82** · 02-08-2021

A point of clarification if I may; are we saying English speaking countries such as the U.S,U.K,Canada and Australia ruling out other parts of Europe?

**Pegasus** · 02-08-2021

Well that is what I had in mind .
Of course the UK influenced many countries to one extent or another ,so the influence on say Canada despite it's french speakers ,is greater than on India despite it having a large number of english speakers .

It has spruck me that english speaking world has challanges ahead. The US and the UK in particular . Aussie has the China trade war and I dare say other countries have their issues .

**CUSP82** · 02-09-2021

And this is the one for all the marbles, from my PhD studies, Native American governments in eastern North America, particularly the League of the Iroquois, served as models of federated representative democracy to the Europeans and the American colonists.

Well just a little side note to my claim that Native Americans liked killing each other. The Iroquois Federation was formed as a defensive measure for protection against the Huron Indians that kept killing them.
Remember the good ole Apaches? Well that really wasn't their name although years later they adopted it. The called themselves the Nde meaning "the people". It was the Zuni Indians that called them that. The word Apache means "enemy". I know just one big happy family
As for models of representative government well I think the ancient Romans, Greeks and Persians had them beat by a few thousand years. Jus sayin!

**Pegasus** · 02-09-2021

Originally Posted by CUSP82

And this is the one for all the marbles, from my PhD studies, Native American governments in eastern North America, particularly the League of the Iroquois, served as models of federated representative democracy to the Europeans and the American colonists.

Well just a little side note to my claim that Native Americans liked killing each other. The Iroquois Federation was formed as a defensive measure for protection against the Huron Indians that kept killing them.
Remember the good ole Apaches? Well that really wasn't their name although years later they adopted it. The called themselves the Nde meaning "the people". It was the Zuni Indians that called them that. The word Apache means "enemy". I know just one big happy family
As for models of representative government well I think the ancient Romans, Greeks and Persians had them beat by a few thousand years. Jus sayin!

Many parts of the world were ahead of Europe early on in the piece in various science and the south american indians were one of them.
The Iroquois had a unique culture and Govt and I understand aspects were drawn on by early Americans .

All parts of the world had wars and Europe was a special for it .