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...eyes, the Union Jack represents the 800 years of British oppression of my people and occupation of my ancestral homeland, punctuated by periodic genocides. The red of the flag is not nearly as deep as the pool of blood which flowed out of Ireland as Oliver Cromwell reduced the population from 1,466,000 to 616,000 in one decade in the mid-17th century. The white is not as pale as the faces of the millions who died during the famine of the 1840s while the British estate owners exported Irish wheat and livestock to pay for their extravagant...
...have 175 different races, religions andethnic groups, and they all have differentaspirations, and they want you to speak out--theIrish on Northern Ireland, or the Hispanics onNicaragua or Cuba, Jews on Israel, Blacks on SouthAfrica. Now supposing the mayor said, 'well that'snot my job.' They'd throw...
...standardized math test was given to 13-year-olds in six countries last year. Koreans did the best. Americans did the worst, coming in behind Spain, Britain, Ireland and Canada. Now the bad news. Besides being shown triangles and equations, the kids were shown the statement "I am good at mathematics." Koreans came last in this category. Only 23% answered yes. Americans were No. 1, with an impressive 68% in agreement...
...says. "I wiped away a few tears myself. After all, I became close to these people, even though the Armenians would accuse us of being pro-Azerbaijani and the Azerbaijanis accused us of favoring Armenia. Someone who has not visited Nagorno-Karabakh cannot understand the situation. You mentioned Northern Ireland? The situation has been going on there for more than 20 years now. God forbid it will be the same way here...
According to the report, Shortchanging Education, only Ireland and Australia invest less than the U.S. in basic education in terms of a percentage of gross national product. Of the 16 countries studied, Sweden spends the most (7%), followed by Austria (5.9%), Switzerland (5.8%), Norway (5.3%) and Belgium (4.9%). Denmark and Japan tied at 4.8%, while the U.S. spends only 4.1%. "If the U.S. were to increase spending for primary and secondary school up to the 'average' level found in the other 15 countries," the study says, "we would need to raise spending by over $20 billion annually...