Very well, suffer on in ineffective and confining isolation - it is a European specialty.
EErrr excuse me how do you think half the planet's population ended up speaking English and most of South America Spanish and Portuguese. Where was the first digital computer developed, where was the first steam engine built, who developed the automobile and first flew (no it wasn't the Wright brothers in the US, they were Johnny come Latelies) where was gravity discovered the telescope invented........
