Nicole is totally right, but I do think that in the "information age"
the US has taken the lead in cultural anhilation. That is the time
frame I was referring too. Maybe the US was just completely founded
and framed on the ideals of a bunch of European conquerers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/10/1999 2:34:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << I was watching PBS NewsHour (which is syndcated on the Australian
> multicultural broadcaster, SBS) this evening and it got me thinking,
[why] is
> America the driving force in the destruction of the planet and the
subjugation
> of its people? Is there something in America's history that
encouraged the
> male/Christian world domination/destruction ethic? >>
>
> Is America the only male, christian dominated country in the world?
The only
> country that encouraged it? What history lesson taught that?
>
> It wasn't America that decimated and adopted away the Aborigines,
slaughtered
> the Tasmanians. A prison colony of convicts did a lot of destruction
and
> subjugating people itself. It isn't America that the aborigines have
fought
> (and still fight) against for survival. I find it ironic that an
Australian
> broadcaster would highlight another country as the subjugator of
people -
> ironic but typical to not want to focus on the spot in its own eye.
>
> Most recently the Australians tried really hard to complain against
those
> indigenous rights issues. What is the name of the "scientist" that got
> elevated in the discussion of how it was only right that the
aborigine culture
> was destroyed because they didn't live in proper houses, speak
english,
> barbecue shrimp right, etc? I have those documents hovering
somewhere on my
> computer.
>
> I have never heard aborigines complaining about America destroying
their
> people and their culture.
>
> Tell me, is Pauline Hanson, an American?
>
> The destruction of the planet and the subjugation of its people
began long
> before America existed.
>
> Colonization didn't begin with America. Exploitation of the
resources of
> colonies didn't begin with America. In fact, the Europeans became
Americans
> because they didn't want to be exploited by the non-living in America
> Europeans. They didn't want to be part of the exploited they wanted
to follow
> that good old european tradition of their parents and be exploiters.
>
> It was hand and hand with the colonization goals of Europe - America
is simply
> a child of that agenda. A child that is continuing that mentality,
while the
> "parents" of that mentality have grown weaker - and now complain
about the
> loss of power to do as such.
>
> Was it America that struck out at the indigenous people of the
Americas? No -
> those were pure europeans who did that, some of whom later became
americans -
> but they were acting out of their european ancestry. It is the
portuguese who
> decimated brasil, the Spanish who raped and plundered mexico, the
french who
> sowed the evil against which haiti rose to rebel.
>
> Were all those Atlantic Slave Trade ships and slave ship captains,
American?
> That was a massive subjugation of people for hundreds of years, the
effects of
> which are tangible still, did America initiate that operation? Did
America
> import enslaved people into Brasil, Cuba?
>
> This year, monuments all over the Americas and in Africa will be
placed,
> ceremonies held in honor of those who died and suffered through the
middle
> passage, and their descendants. America will not be the only
country, not even
> the lead country, remembered for operating that slaughter of people
and
> cultures.
>
> Was it America who committed the slaughter of the belgian congo? Was
it
> America who forced French control on large stretches of Africa?
Subjugated
> African languages for the "civilized french"? Did America conduct
nuclear
> tests in the pacific? Was it the Americans who tried to subjugate
with Opium?
> Is it because of America that some filipinos have the last names of
> "bermudez"? Was it Americans who inflicted apartheid on south
africa? Was it
> the Americans that the Rwandans and the UN revealed to be complicit
in the
> Rwandan Genocide? Was it America who gave smallpox and syphillis to
the
> indigenous people of "Latin America"? For that matter why is it
called "Latin"
> - were the Americans latin? Did America build and run the death
camps where
> masses of jews were exterminated? Was it upon America's empire the
sun never
> set? Was it America that seized hong kong in retaliation for blocked
drug
> profits? Are the Zapatistas fighting against the oppression of
America? Or
> perhaps it was America who the Indians fought against, gandhi fasted
to fight?
> Is America the neocolonial power strangling Senegal, Mali, Cote d'
Ivoire? Is
> it America leading a drive for timber destruction to provide wood for
> chopsticks? Was it America that the Algerians fought against?
>
> Is america the only country that is creating and endorsing viperish
economic
> agreements like the multilateral agreement on investments? The only
country
> that is exploiting the resources, polluting the environment, and
oppressing
> people?
>
> America isn't even the leader at it, but it is a bold decoy for
other nations
> to try to hide the blood on their own hands. It is, however, only
nation that
> threatens the continued dominance of exploitation of these traditional
> exploiters. It is simply the traditional bullies angry that a new
bully is
> muscling in on its victims - the ones it expected to continue to
provide its
> wants.
>
> How does history, even the present, get obscured to say anything else?
>
> Nicole
>
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