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Is this the most annoying man in the United Kingdom?

Terry Sofian | St Peters, MO United States | 01/09/2010

(2 out of 5 stars)

"The treausres are wonderful, the photography amazing and the host horrible. So far he has expressed his sorrow at the defeat of Communisim in front of a mural painted in Mexico. He is saddened by the victory of "Evil Capitalism" he neglects to mention the clearly visible swastika in the workers' paradise. This was probably due to the Nazi-Stalin pack signed near the time of completion of the art work. Later he tanks about the Mesa Verde culture's oneness with their environment, which from evidence did not include a friendly relationship with their neighbores, since there is little reason to build your homes in a cave half way up a cliff, reachable only by shallow hand holds cut into the rock and even after that building doors so small that they can be easily defended in case of attack. He also talk about how the indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in harmony with nature, failing to even mention the many times that cultures collapsed in the New World prior to European contact because they overran the carrying capacity of their environments. The narration also mentions but makes no peedantic moral judgement about Inca conquest of other indigenous cultures, and completely glosses over the brutal nature of the Aztec Empire.



I haven't gotten past this part yet. I may do so with the sound off."