Subj : Re: Cognitive bias exposed
To   : Bj�rn Felten
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Tue Aug 16 2022 07:09 pm

BF>DC> Maybe you and Ward are actually related.

BF> Oh, absolutely. Not only possibly genetically, since his ancestors,
BF> the Walloon, helped Sweden a lot when we welcomed them here as immigrants
BF> -- we've always understood the value, yes even importance, of
BF> immigrants...

BF> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloon_immigration_to_Sweden

I mildly remember something about iron-works ....

Then you will be interested to read this ...

https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/battery-park/monuments/1647

The Walloon settlers monument in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan which honours the first settlers onto Manhattan predating Pierre Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant. Belgians actually collonized and made the early development of Manhattan...that was several years before the hoax that it was bought from natives for some glass beads.

BF> ... but more importantly we are related as citizens of the European
BF> Union, the socialist capitalism heaven on the the planet.

We don't exactly know what the Vikings did overhere ... their DNA may be everywhere ...

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