Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism

[cema]

And more [upi] on Columbus Day.

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It makes more sense to think of the European encounters with the Americas as three distinct main streams: one was the Spanish movement to the Caribbean, Mexico, Peru, and ultimately other areas, stemming from Columbus's voyage; another was the Portuguese movement to Brazil, which was intimately linked to their explorations of Africa predating Columbus; and the third was the stream of peoples from the British Isles and ultimately elsewhere to North America to found the nations of the North American Anglosphere. These three distinct streams founded the three principal cultural-linguistic communities of the Americas.

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[gera.livejournal.com]

Just as Calvinists believed in the centrality of the depravity of man, with the exception of a miniscule contingent of the Elect of God, their secularized descendants believe in the depravity and cursedness of Western civilization, with their own enlightened selves in the role of the Elect.

[luybu.livejournal.com]

Не трогай дядьку, он был Exnostrice (это я пытаюсь бабушкин ийдишь изобразить :) - Из наших, из прогрессоров!

[capka3m.livejournal.com]

A pretty bad article, but a fascinating idea :) I also liked our fellow Siberian American immigrants :)

[cema.livejournal.com]

Well, this is UPI.com, they are pretty strange.

[ygam.livejournal.com]

По-моему, главное отличие - между колонизацией тропической зоны Нового Света (включая юг США), где либо сохранились индейцы, либо были импортированы негры, работавшие на плантациях, и колонизацией умеренных зон (север США, Канада, юг Аргентины, Уругвай), где индейцев вытеснили белые фермеры. См. "Экологический империализм" Кросби.

[cema.livejournal.com]

С экономической точки зрения примерно так, но есть и другие точки отсчёта.

[ygam.livejournal.com]

Рассмотрим Барбардос, Южную Каролину, Массачузеттс в 1900 году. Какая из этих стран / штатов наименее похожа на остальные?

[cema.livejournal.com]

Можно рассмотреть и другие списки.

[arbat.livejournal.com]

Через пандита нашли? :-)

[cema.livejournal.com]

Ежедневное чтение.

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

I always thought of Columbus Day in the States as being Italian-centric version of St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo.

As far as the rest of the article is concerned, here is the short version:
"Let's stop celebrating Columbus Day... Wait a minute... THOSE STINKING LIBERALS want that too (I think)... Hey, Let's stop celebrating Columbus Day, but for different reasons..."

[cema.livejournal.com]

:-)