Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:52:06 -0500 (CDT) From: JOSHI <sjoshi-AT-eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Re: Is the US PostColonial? Who is us and who is them? Thanks for the info. Maybe this is far out, but I see a parallel with blacks. In "Hoop Dreams' the only way out of being marginalized, for black youths, was to excel in sports.(Specularizing themselves with any sexual goals of the viewer disavowed / success depending on physical ability only etc.). How different is this from slavery where only the best ditch diggers / cotton pickers were allowed to breed / survive? On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Richard Knox wrote: > I'd like to suggest that not only is the US still fully colonial but > that we have slavery perfected to the point where we can pretend it > isn't here. > First - maybe the US is not a settler culture - maybe the settler > culture has so much of the power that it can forget that another culture > still exists here - on reservations and committing suicide daily through > drug and alcohol abuse. > And regarding slavery - I've done business in Mexico and Indonesia. > People work in Indonesia for $1 per day. And you know what they're > doing? Making shirts for us to buy at the discount store. Through this > euphemism of "free trade" which mean keep slaves outside your borders > under the control of slavemasters in their countries- don't let them > come here but let our money go there to set up factories. Send out > soldiers and weapons to help their dictators keep them under control, > and justify this support for their dictators because either :(1) if they > were free they would form a communist government; or (2) there are drug > lords in those countries who would do bad things if not stopped. How > else do you justify military support and training to Mexico and > Indonesia? > Of course - the role of education is to indoctrinate students into > accepting the ways of those who are in control and so if you're too > educated these things may be hard to see? > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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