Quite a few historical books mention about the nature of Portuguese who went to places like Goa. They were often uneducated, from the country side, rough, brutes and with hardly any etiquete.
Hence, their needs were obviously more of a very basic nature...
Possibly why race was never an issue to them to have personal relationships with the native population, as long as their personal needs were met.
Also, on other reference material, educated Portuguese often made highly derogatory remarks on the native population, calling them 'barbarians' and 'savages'. Of course, the average natives of the land would not have any universities and libraries to get themselves
any refined education. Making such lame comparisons, only showed their lack of intellect and reasoning, despite having attended schools and colleges.
There is hardly any evidence that these higher class colonisers have mingled as much with the local 'barbarian' populace, as much as the uneducated, coloniser 'brutes' did.
Hence there was an unspoken, racial issue based on social class.
Vasco da Gama never discovered India, the arabs did in the 8th century. He would ha been nowhere if not for the help of the Omani navigator Ibn Majid who had been requested to guide VDG to the Malabar coast in india in 1498.
Else he would had met the same fate as Colombo the drunkard, who got lost in the Carribean and assuming he reached India, called the place the West Indies.
History needs a bit of an update.
Alberto,
The Portuguese stole as much as any other nation. The Portuguese difference was the willingness of mixing with other ethnic groups, from the casual sexual intercourse to marriage and to the ability to "go
native". We might on occasion consider the "natives" primitive, but that never stopped us from having normal intercourse with them. Considerations of racial purity never came to our minds. We might not have been very tolerant in respect of religion, but race
differences never bothered us...
Nuno Cardoso da Silva
John. Vasco (Vasco foi Gamar, as some Portuguese say) attacked ships in the Indian Ocean, killed their crew and looted everything. Do you think the Portuguese were different? What do you think of the black
slaves from Africa taken to the American continent? The Inquisition in Goa? You cannot whitewash the history recorded and archived in France, Venice and Florence (Italy), the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, India, etc. (The verb Gamar in Portuguese means
to steal).
Alberto, professor aposentado de Historia.
Data: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:07:12 -0400
Assunto: Re: [GRN] Re: Dutch map ‘stolen from the Portuguese’
SOME Europeans “did everything they could to get their hands on the wealth of the Asians”. But there were other Europeans (Portuguese) who did not do that and
some who called to task those who stole (like Vasco da Gama when he was Viceroy of Portuguese India).
John M. de Figueiredo
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