From: "Hakuna Matata Marley" <bixmarley-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: www.creator.org Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:38:24 VUT Erik wrote: >I'm afraid i'm not an ignorant american. The first part of it could maybe >fit me but certainly not the second. On the other hand you could claim both >parts if up to it. ;-) I was talking about ignorant Americans, not polite friendly Belgians. >Well i guess like we never were taught the atrocities of the belgians (long >live the king and the good works of the converting priests) in Congo, maybe >school in your place never covered the fate(s) of the people living there >before the unlucky arival of the europeans. We were. I thought you were talking about the first Portugueses that came here. My mistake. I can only agree with you in that matter, but it wasnt fascism which was spread here. The concept that Europeans were conquering the world due to their superiority isnt fascist in its roots. It just assumes that barbarians (everyone else) havent got to the point of development that Europe has, and that other cultures are trash and other languages barriers to be wrecked. But never have I heard that the first colonizers considered native Americans a disease in the world. They didnt promote genocide. Of course slavery is condemnable, but the nazi superior crap wasnt there, or at least thats what I think. >BTW don't think i'm critizing you. I'm only trying to point out that no >matter were we come from we should be very cautious of any government and >never underestimate the strength of fascist ideology in all its forms. And >if you don't see any big hate-movements in brazil maybe you could look at >the way te big landowners and their organisations and the people supporting >them treat the people they took the land off. There is probably a racist >undertone. Agreed. But our main problem is of concentration of wealth and land. The racist undertone comes from slavery (sadly, our country was the last in the world to abolish it, and we did it because English mercants wanted a consuimers market here...). It is not, however, the reason why people dont have acces to land, work or humane conditions of life. Reading last world news and those about Belgiumīs "side", I realized your country has strong positions in world politics. This is really good. Maybe some of it comes from sort of hosting EU, but its great anyway. Belgium seems to state its view everytime somethin bigs going on. On the other side, this is a major problem in Brazil. One guy I read recently said that our deepest problems is "the capacity to never revolt(is this the word?) against reality". -HK- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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