”I can’t believe that 50 years ago, in 2005, …”

• we went to war in Iraq (Ankur, Zach, Don; all from the US)
• Capetown was white (Karin, Austria)
• the US dominated the world (Karin, Austria)
• Europe consisted of several countries (Laura, Finland)
• Bush was chosen leader of the world – twice (Janne, Finland)
• there was a state called Israel (Jens, student, Denmark)
• China was still no military superpower (Niklas, rock artist, Finland) blogged
• there were wars because of oil (Öjvind, cynic, Finland)
• there were countries (Ricardo, prince, Mexico)
• there had only been two World Wars (Alessandro, Italy)
• there were countries with the veto right in the UN security council (Anja, Austria)
• there were sovereign countries, not just multinational companies (Martti, photographer, Finland)