Cetin
But you need to read my e-mail in context. Whether or not it happened is not the issue. Nursing resentment is the issue. Of course people might nurse resentments about the "Armenian experience" in Turkey and all the other examples I gave. For example, by far the most recent "grievance" I quoted is the French bombing of a ship in a New Zealand harbour. This was less than 20 years ago, large numbers of living NZ'ers were right there. I suppose NZ could nurse grievances and "hate" France, but we've put it behind us now. Unlike others who still nurse grievances that apparently occurred generations ago.
My point is that we cannot change the past and nursing grievances is an obstacle to progress and improvement. Look around the world to where cultural, religions or racist resentments are nursed and you will see I am right... even if I have only read the extensive American and German reports made by observers at the time re the Armenian experience in Turkey, rather than the latest textbook written in Turkish ;-)
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
