The City vs. the Country: Difference between revisions
→Real Life
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (defaultsort, rationalized headers) |
Jason taylor (talk | contribs) |
||
| (One intermediate revision by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 75:
=== Real Life ===
* The implication that [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-20-2008/pfriend-or-pfoe- urban Americans] are not as [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-20-2008/quiz--are-you-a-real-american- "American"] or [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-20-2008/governor-palin-clarification "patriotic"] as their small-town relations is a well-known [[Berserk Button]] of ''[[The Daily Show]]'''s [[Jon Stewart]] (as well as many urban Americans). The attitude itself can be found as far back as [[Thomas Jefferson]], who maintained that America ought to be a primarily agrarian nation for democracy to survive (he lived before urbanization became a widespread phenomenon, so it's a bit more excusable).
* Large parts of petty local politics throughout history depended on the moving of goods between cities through areas which of course were inhabited by bandits-sometimes by tribes who had a large part of their economy made up of bandits. The various strategies for getting through could include paying tolls, negotiating an alliance with one tribe against another, or just hacking their way through.
**The [[Hanseatic League]] was formed in defense of the trade rights of town merchants. The country was filled with robber barons, "wreckers" (pirates who lured ships into piling up and looted the cargo), traditional pirates, and a whole zoo of miscreants.
**Kuwait was an island in the desert. It often set caravans inland. With the Bedouin they usually paid tolls in a more or less amicable arrangement. Sometimes desert nobility would have a giant dynastic row and Kuwait had to decide what to do about it.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:The City]]
[[Category:The City vs. the Country]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:City vs. the Country, The}}
| |||