RE: NI and OU

Hmm, actually you might be surprised about how much stronger and
reinforced
nationalistic feelings become with social/ethnic groups that have
migrated
to Australia. Without over generalising - Turks, Vietnamese, Greeks,
Maltese
and Lebanese in Sydney and Melbourne for example have some extremely
closed
little communities. 

Bringing this relative to GZG, extrapolate this to any of the colonies
and
you've got plenty of ripe little brush wars that can flare up; ripe for
scenarios and mini campaigns!

Given teh OU propensity to 'fence sit' on most occasions trade with NI
would
probably be quite common; best price is always so attractive....

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Atcliffe [mailto:Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, 11 December 1999 7:51 AM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: NI and OU
> 
> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:54:57 -0500 "Izenberg, Noam" 
> <Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> 
> Quoting Alan:
> >> In any event, given the number of Red Sea Pedestrians in 
> Oz, there'd 
> be a strong tendency to give such a guarantee. We also have a large 
> number of other peoples from the middle east, but somehow when people 
> get to Oz they tend to lose a lot of their mutual hatreds. <<
>  
> > Sounds like a decent place to live. <
> 
> I've always thought so; I just wish I still lived there!
>  
> >> Maybe it's because we're all too busy down here fighting off the 
> spiders, sharks and snakes. Not forgetting the Drop Bears <g> <<
> 
> And you forget _them_ at your peril! <eg>
>  
> > Now there's a spinoff FT power: The Terran Union of 
> Uplifted Species 
> (though who would want to uplift spiders and snakes?). <
> 
> You don't uplift _them_ -- you squash them! Preferably with a 
> landslide. The sharks get depth charges...
> 
> Phil, who once told an MIT professor of space science about Drop 
> Bears... and I cracked up totally when someone else mentioned Tree 
> Kangaroos and he looked at me as if to say, "Is this guy kidding?" <g>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> "We gotta get out into Space / If it's the last thing we ever do!"  
>    -- Return to the Forbidden Planet
> A sentiment echoed by Phil Atcliffe (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk)
>