Re: Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:50:40 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] While researching Kenya, she found shocking
Nice one! Can we get the Portuguese and British back, for a start? FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91-832-2409490 On 24 May 2010 22:21, manuel tavares <duk...@bell.net> wrote: > > > FN comments on my post as follows: > > Surely not as long as their "wealth" was colonized by another part of > the globe? FN > > My Reply. > Although one cannot condone colonization, too often the better parts of colonization are lost the rush to condemnation. One cannot hide the uplifting of the people who, prior to colonization did not have any schools, had only primitive housing, went to Witch Doctors for cures due to there being no hospitals, drank untreated water had on sanitary latrines and relieved themselves in the bush wiping their arses with grass or not at all, besides the semblance of a civilized society with a set of universal rules and laws(Government). These and many more attributes of colonization should not be overlooked when passing judgment. > > > Regards.......Manuel (Eddie) Tavares. > > Funny (?) enough, this is exactly the argument recently advanced by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his (rightwing) UMP party to 'correct' the 'unbalanced views' now prevailing in school textbooks regarding the 'mission civilisatrice' (no translation needed) that was France's overseas expansion after all, wasn't it? - just think Indochina, Algeria, New Caledonia, etc etc... Cheers but no cheers, patrizio & Diiiinooos!