bravest people that are not your people

who are according to you the "second" bravest people ion the planet I mean  second place your own people are surely the bravest

I dont think one could list bravery based on ethnicity or country, but to me all the steppe nations produce the best, smartest, and most far ranging of warriors.  Turks, Mongols, Huns etc go everywhere and conquer everyone.  It is of course, a biased appeal because that is my favorite history. 

Even in modern times after steppe empires faded away, Russia became their sucesssor and in modern times from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union Russian troops were the most stoic in the face of battle despite often being outgeneraled and ill equipped.

Originally posted by xi_tujue who are according to you the "second" bravest people ion the planet I mean  second place your own people are surely the bravest   But who do you think is realy brave but who aren't of your stock?   or who was or is the hardest bad*ass enemy or adversary of your country ,nation or people.   Who do you think are good warriors.

Bravery is to never falter and stand up against murder, oppression and discrimination wherever it rears its ugly head and to try and halt its dishonest band wagon that most people like to ride, either through ignorance, self interest or plain idiocy.

Originally posted by Zagros Conquerors of other lands are seldom brave, they prey on the weakand vulnerable.

Couldn't agree more...

"It doesnt take power to kill, it takes power to not to kill" - from Schindler's List

Iroqouis.

Whereas both Rosa Parks and Genghis Khan were brave in their own way, they were both individuals and not peoples. For an entire people to deemed brave, it's not enough to single out a few extraordinary individuals and incidents, because this will make it possible to justify just about any people on the planet as the bravest. No, what one must look for is a continous show of bravery throughout the centuries, and the relative absence of cowardly displays. A people who've been able to "keep up pressure", so to speak, in all circumstances. Following this logic, the Turkic tribes would IMO rank far higher in this contest than the Mongols. Surely the latter had their days of carnage and glory, but it was confined to a single period whereas the many Turkic peoples made themselves felt over a considerable amount of time and in many corners of the World. The same could be said of the Germanic tribes; from the Cimbri's battles to the Roman defeat in the Teutoborg Forest, the conquest of western Rome to the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire and the defeat of the Magyars and the Slavic tribes in the middle ages, the Viking invasions and the Varangian Guard, from the Teutonic Order to the military state of Prussia, the Austrian repulse of the Ottomans, the unparallelled destruction of the Thirty Years War and the successes under Bismarck, and I hardly need to mention Nazi Germany that could only be brought down by an alliance of the entire civilized world.

I should've made my point clear; I'd say either the Germanic or the Turkic tribes, possibly both. This is of course a result of my history knowledge being somewhat restricted to Europe and the Middle East, but I doubt there are peoples outside these regions with even more impressive records that I haven't heard of at all.


Edited by Reginmund - 29-Jul-2006 at 09:46

Or face a Jedi master, why would you assume we want to be Jedi?  Sith are way cooler, and the get to have sex.  I am SO a Sith Lord, their philosophy is the first political statement I have ever seen that I completely agree with.

But they never have fun, protecting that shambling blob of a useless republic.  I get to promote on ability and choke incompotents (something all governments should do) plus have a cooler wardrobe and shoot lightning.  My theme song will also likely be cooler, and Im more likley to be potrayed by a beter actor.

I wish I was a wooki jedi is there such thing?