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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 16.

What Is a New Country?

What Is a New Country?

To help discover this, we must analyse what gets the "new countries" apart, Geographically, said Prof. Clarke, sketching on the blackboard, they form a broken crescent—a curving chain of continents—North and South American, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. But it was not adaptation to new geographical conditions that singled out the new countries "What is the geographical justification for drinking whisky? Any climate at all!" In the fact of transplantation lay the salient feature of the new countries. Their colonisers, heirs to history and a way of life of their homeland opened a new chapter of history when they settled and created a new country. They tried to re-create their old life in the new country, but they couldn't help making a new life, meeting their needs by modifying features of the old appropriately to meet the new conditions?