Hello, I don't want to start a discussion about what is right and wrong when it comes down to cultural oppression - and I am certainly not going to defend "american 'civilisation' for all". Mono-culturalism is what Orson Wells was already warning us for, and I am not going to do a better job than he did. The Himba people would have done a nice job if europeans hadn't come to disturb a certain balance - same thing goes for the Aboriginal people in Australia.
You are right however to state that we cannot leave them alone anymore - we made them dependant of us. Before the arrival of europeans these people were thriving...
I do want to start a discussion about politeness on the internet - "fucking tradition" and "shit hole" sound very aggressive to me and I don't think the Opuwo-blogspot-authors wrote anything to deserve this.
I can understand one getting angry when confronted with people having different views, I cannot understand lack of respect.
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Hello, I don't want to start a discussion about what is right and wrong when it comes down to cultural oppression - and I am certainly not going to defend "american 'civilisation' for all". Mono-culturalism is what Orson Wells was already warning us for, and I am not going to do a better job than he did. The Himba people would have done a nice job if europeans hadn't come to disturb a certain balance - same thing goes for the Aboriginal people in Australia.
You are right however to state that we cannot leave them alone anymore - we made them dependant of us. Before the arrival of europeans these people were thriving...
I do want to start a discussion about politeness on the internet - "fucking tradition" and "shit hole" sound very aggressive to me and I don't think the Opuwo-blogspot-authors wrote anything to deserve this.
I can understand one getting angry when confronted with people having different views, I cannot understand lack of respect.
But that, of course, is only my point of view.
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