RE: Some thoughts
I am affraid this topic has turned into something rude, offensive and agresive, in which the moderator should have something to say about. I am not going to presonalize because other readers deserve respect. So let´s go back to the point. We have to admit that the historical development of the countries is based on invasions of countries, colonization, opresion and so on. No place in the world can be considered free of this. Spain for instance has suffered continous invasions, bloody represions, manslaughters…and so on. Powerful countries submit the weak ones for their interests. The SPanish submitted the Aztecas for instance, which previously had manslaughters his neighbours and sometimes with a higher degree of cruelty. But all these invasions, colonizations and so on, have shaped the countries identities, by getting different aportations of different cultures. So we can´t decide what part our own indetity comes from own local cuture or is given. As we don´t have any magic bowl to indicate us how our countries would be without any invasive of colonizating process or if we would be worst of better, we have to accept that we can´t eliminate colonization from human existence, and try to find what positives have given to us. I am talking in a general sense not refering to the British or the Spanish….But It´s quite naive pretending to say…”well we were the pure Spanish before this or that country came”. I am sure that in Sri Lanka, there were other people coming from other parts and submiting the locals. Why the British and Spanish colonization processes were the most cruel ones…..again question of scale. If you are powerful you can kill many, if your weak you can kill less or in a lower scale. Spanish was even more cruel, because it was previous in time, in which human rights concepts were even more inexistent. I AM NOT JUSTIFYING IT, but it´s how it worked. I would find a bit childish asking for responsabilities to the italians for the Romans having invading muy country…TODAY. Of course many current problems are due to colonization, it´s obvious. But history is history, and it´s only to learn from it. And once again, bringing it back to the current world affairs, is an easy excuse to blame others for many problems in which we are also responsible for. Before leaving this topic and for anyone interested in my level of education, I have two university degrees, a diploma, a master, I speak five languages and colaborate in different publications in my country, appart from other things. Not really dramatic, but of course I don´t consider myself uneducated. At least, I am able to respect others. Bye.
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