Originally Posted by
Syn7
yeah i always wondered why americans chose the eagle as one of its symbols... the eagle is rome, it was rome for a long long time... so for them to adopt the same logo yet wanting to be so different from the old ways, to set up a new and more righteous republic, seems odd to me... why chose such a roman symbol??? why not use something new and more suited to the difference they were supposed to be... it was a place where all, in theory, were to be treated fair... thats not how rome was... they may have been more multicultural for the time but "real" romans were always head and shoulders above the "new" romans... and it was alot worse than how "new" americans dont get the same fair shake that "real" americans get... it was pretty unfair 2200 years ago during the republic, which was arguably the best rome... the time in the republic, well before the empire, when things were more ideal than what it later became...