Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Actually, quite honestly, no. I didn't mean it at any one person in particular. Everyone seems to be taking this whole question way, way, WAY too seriously. No offense meant, amigo. Apologies for any given.

By the way, I suppose it would help calm you and King Malcolm and a few of the other Brits down that as ludicrous as you'll find this, most Americans view the British Isles, including Manx, Jersey and all the other hinterlands as 'different' than the rest of Europe, like halfway between mainstream Europe and mainstream America. Usually, when Americans make sweeping generalizations (a bad idea in general) about Europeans, they're not talking about Brits, Irish, Welsh, Scots or anyone else that was part of the United Kingdom at one point or another.
Ahh, well that's alright then. I was provoked by comments that European colonialism was to blame for all the ills in the world, and since you nice American folks consider Britain different from Europe that might perhaps mean continental colonialism is to blame, and since I have little knowledge of that I cannot argue against it, but we all know how bad the Belgian Congo was...