Cultural History: Questions 2

trade is good, trade cities are good, immigration is good, have an equitable mix and improve each other

7:17 That is completely contrary to my experience. The only context where the Puritans get talked about first is when we're being taught about the origin of Thanksgiving in elementary school, which the Virginians don't exactly have a lot of connection to. When we actually talk about the history of the history of America, the colonies, we almost always start with Roanoke, then Jamestown, then Plymouth. Sure, we could talk about a few other early colonies Saint Augustine, Detroit, New Orleans, the initial Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, but it's not wholly unreasonable up focus on the English colonies, nor to focus on the successful ones. 7:30 Plymouth was less than ten years after Jamestown. EDIT: Correction, on double checking, just over ten years. Jamestown was first established in 1607, Plymouth in 1620. 12:17 Not just wool, they also wanted to graze cattle because beef was the most capable meat. 12:49 Land was a big part of it, but also rights and freedoms. A big part of Pennsylvania's advertising caprin emphasized that your could chop as much wood as you wanted and needed and you could hunt as much as you liked, there were no crown forests or fake preserved, the crown might mark specific trees for use in shipbuilding, but there were no wine forests that people were forbidden from using any resources in at all. 23:39 In the Detroit area you cam del tir French influence in subtle ways. It's not in your face like I New Orleans, but if you grow up in the area it permeates things. Street and towns with French names. There's a lot of catholic culture in the area with catholic charities, the knights of Columbia. Look back in history a bit and the native blessing schools here were catholic (not our proudest moment by any stretch), you had nuns going around shaming rich people into donating money to ship kitchens in the depression. We're also reviving old celebrations that had fallen by the wayside at some point, Detroit has held the Marché du Nain Rouge (march of the red dwarf) for the laat couple years, which is based off of a very local story about Cadillac. 25:25 One of my college professors taught a course on North American colonial history, and one of the things he menthes is that the ruins we raspy think of and feel are American find their strongest precursors in the Dutch culture of New York and the Quakers of Pennsylvania. He was talking more about the cultural beliefs and ideals than anything else, things like cultural and religious toleration, hard work and prosperity, the things we say about American culture. 26:44 I'll be honest, I've been to Québec, specifically Montréal, and it just didn't feel that different from home. I grew up in the Detroit area, and Montreal in particular doesn't feel that different, but even in the area around the city where suddenly no one speaks anything but French feels a lot like the area around Detroit. Toronto felt more like a different country than Montreal did.

This is so long ago as to be pointless