Tyrannical on 13 January 2009
Last time I checked back in the middle ages when there was wars between kingdoms they just considered battles well battles for land or control of the opposing side's empire. There was no nicknaming of the empire that started the attack. We never heard the Romans writing in their texts "Today there was an act of terrorism in our northern cities by the the terrorist group the Greeks." They simply stated they were attacked, then stated that they should get payback
You need to check harder.
English rivalry with The Netherlands especially during the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars gave rise to several phrases including Dutch that promote certain negative stereotypes. Examples include Dutch courage, Dutch uncle and Dutch wife. The particular stereotype associated with this usage is the idea of Dutch people as ungenerous and selfish.
I could give many, many other examples. Care to hear what the British think of the French, Spainish, or Germans?
You need to check harder.
English rivalry with The Netherlands especially during the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars gave rise to several phrases including Dutch that promote certain negative stereotypes. Examples include Dutch courage, Dutch uncle and Dutch wife. The particular stereotype associated with this usage is the idea of Dutch people as ungenerous and selfish.
I could give many, many other examples. Care to hear what the British think of the French, Spainish, or Germans?
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
