What always worries me about this kind of post is how quickly:
a) it becomes evident that the person has so little knowledge of the world and its history at large.
b) How people cherry pick at history and adjust it to suit their ends.
If one were to sit and talk with people of this ilk, you would swear that the only 2 places that ever colonised any part of the world were Europe and the US.
Some facts:
As a previous post so rightly pointed out, the US never colonised any country to speak of. They are one of the newest nations on Earth apart from those that change hands on a weekly basis. They are the original melting pot and the colony of all colonies.
The Europeans have in many shapes and forms been colonising the world for millenia, ever since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
But this is the point which these idiots tend to forget. If you understand the word colonise to mean establish, settle ,pioneer etc. then you will know something else
SO HAS EVERYONE ELSE !!
I am from Zimbabwe. Ask any twit who needs a bandwagon to stand on about my country and they will jump headlong on to the "British are evil colonialists" variety.
They will forget that before the British there were a tribe calling itself the Mashona living there. An offshoot of the Zulu tribe called the Matabele took over, conquered , call it what you will.
Further south, the Zulu nation are always attributed , falsely , as being this huge nation of South African tribesmen who lived there for thousands of years.
Rubbish! Originally they were a small nation, outnumbered greatly by others until Shaka Zulu decided to try this conquering lark and employed the "join us as Zulus or die" method.
Between the Zulus, Xhosa (Nelson Mandela's roots) Sotho, Tswana , Venda and dozens of other tribes , and the European settlers later in the day, the original inhabitants of South Africa have long since been wiped out. The Hottentots are extinct, people!!
The Moriori people of New Zealand are no more. Tame Horomana Rehe Solomon, known as Tommy Solomon, the last full blooded Moriori, died in 1933.
The Maori people had more to do with that than anyone else.
The Asian races have been colonising conquering slaughtering each other for 1000's of years before the first white man came any where near the place.
Slavery in Africa was rooted in a trade of Black people selling Black people to other Black people. And to Arab people. And to the Phoenicians. And to anyone interested in making a purchase.
Every nation on Earth has taken slaves in their past.
Every nation on Earth has conquered and overrrun their neighbours. Thats because we are all humans.
We humans have been out there conquering, torturing, raping,pillaging, plundering , sacking and generally causing freaking havoc since long before we learned to walk erect or discovered the secret of fire. We have done it in the name of religion, commerce, greed, self preservation and every other excuse we could come up with.
For anyone out there who is looking for a cause or a bandwagon to climb aboard, here's a doozy.
STOP KILLING EACH OTHER.
The sooner we realise that we are a long long long way from civilisation as we would like it to be, the sooner we will come to our senses.
The sooner we stop pointing fingers at this race or this country or this belief or that idealogy, the sooner we are on the road to true freedom.
I for one am a long way off. I have pettiness and self centredness and bigotry and bias oozing out of every pore, yet the fact that I know this and try (generally unsucceffully) to change it puts me way ahead of the race.
People like the ones who don't know the truth of the history that brought us to this point are truly blind.
Get Real!
