On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:45:02 GMT, Ed Conrad <edconrad@verizon.net> wrote, in
part:

The real reason The Great Wall of China was originally constructed
had nothing whatsoever to do with preventing an invasion but,
instead, to keep the Chinese inside China.

But the sole purpose for starting construction in the first place was
to keep their race pure (which is precisely what a Johnny-Come-Lately
attempted to do -- in an evil, hideous, horrible  way -- in Nazi
Germany in the 1930s.)

If the wall was built to keep the Chinese *in* China, it would remind me of a
wall built in Germany, but in the service of an ideology quite different from
Nazism.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html