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England is the enemy of the traditional European nation-state.
Why should Europeans have any sympathy for you?
This is what Europe thinks of you:
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: bigman88
So glad your not my grand child .... being relegated to the rocking
chair with my thoughts and experiences counting for nothing,
because *you know best*
How PATRONISING of you to even think she is incapable of making a
rationalised decision, from living through, rather than being
taught.
"from a mind and thought pattern set in stone" REALLY???
She has probably changed her mind many times over the years and
has the life experience to have arrived at the decision she has.
I have not relegated my gramma to the rocking chair and do not take away from her abilities to make rationalized decisions. She has made it this far in her life. She does not know anything except living under British rule. Nothing. She was born into it, went to school as a little girl being taught the values of Britain, was told on her media about the greatness of Britain, had her culture dominated by Britain. What else will she know? Ones life experiences are only subjective, and not necessarily indicative of the whole picture, dude. Oh yeah, she grew up dirt poor. So did my Mom. That's what the excellent British did for Trinidad and Tobago. So basically she is going by the culture and there customs and not by economic prosperity. Tea drinking, music, clothes, stuff like that. Britain also flooded the place with Italian and American music, having think that is the best you can listen to, even though there were many great Trinidadian artists out there of the time.
Listen. She is Trinidadian, and should identify and be proud and a Trinidadian, just as much as you should iidentify and be proud of being an Englishman. I would never say my culture and way of life, is better than yours; that should go the same for you. But you being an anglo-supremacist, can't see anything beneath your upward tilted nose.
Africa? Still reliant and dependant on the Industrialised west
and charity.....
* Water aid?
* Famine relief?
* Decease? ebola? malaria?
* Education? schools?
That is because Africa has not and does not had a full unfettered and uninterrupted opportunity to develop itself. Go research just how much negative involvement the U.S., England and the EU has in Africa, tell me what you see. But that would require an objective mind.
NOTHING ... they would still have been in the same place.
Industrialisation is what has pushed progress for the human race.
How do you know the African nations would not have industrialized themselves? From here are you getting this besides your superiority fantasies.?
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: bigman88
So glad your not my grand child .... being relegated to the rocking
chair with my thoughts and experiences counting for nothing,
because *you know best*
How PATRONISING of you to even think she is incapable of making a
rationalised decision, from living through, rather than being
taught.
"from a mind and thought pattern set in stone" REALLY???
She has probably changed her mind many times over the years and
has the life experience to have arrived at the decision she has.
I have not relegated my gramma to the rocking chair and do not take away from her abilities to make rationalized decisions. She has made it this far in her life. She does not know anything except living under British rule. Nothing. She was born into it, went to school as a little girl being taught the values of Britain, was told on her media about the greatness of Britain, had her culture dominated by Britain. What else will she know? Ones life experiences are only subjective, and not necessarily indicative of the whole picture, dude. Oh yeah, she grew up dirt poor. So did my Mom. That's what the excellent British did for Trinidad and Tobago. So basically she is going by the culture and there customs and not by economic prosperity. Tea drinking, music, clothes, stuff like that. Britain also flooded the place with Italian and American music, having think that is the best you can listen to, even though there were many great Trinidadian artists out there of the time.
Listen. She is Trinidadian, and should identify and be proud and a Trinidadian, just as much as you should iidentify and be proud of being an Englishman. I would never say my culture and way of life, is better than yours; that should go the same for you. But you being an anglo-supremacist, can't see anything beneath your upward tilted nose.
Africa? Still reliant and dependant on the Industrialised west
and charity.....
* Water aid?
* Famine relief?
* Decease? ebola? malaria?
* Education? schools?
That is because Africa has not and does not had a full unfettered and uninterrupted opportunity to develop itself. Go research just how much negative involvement the U.S., England and the EU has in Africa, tell me what you see. But that would require an objective mind.
NOTHING ... they would still have been in the same place.
Industrialisation is what has pushed progress for the human race.
How do you know the African nations would not have industrialized themselves? From here are you getting this besides your superiority fantasies.?
So glad your not my grand child .... being relegated to the rocking
chair with my thoughts and experiences counting for nothing,
because *you know best*
How PATRONISING of you to even think she is incapable of making a
rationalised decision, from living through, rather than being
taught.
"from a mind and thought pattern set in stone" REALLY???
She has probably changed her mind many times over the years and
has the life experience to have arrived at the decision she has.
Africa? Still reliant and dependant on the Industrialised west
and charity.....
* Water aid?
* Famine relief?
* Decease? ebola? malaria?
* Education? schools?
NOTHING ... they would still have been in the same place.
Industrialisation is what has pushed progress for the human race.
originally posted by: Connell
a reply to: Freeborn
Bah, I got nothing against you anyway. I just don't like your country. Thanks for the argument, nice way to pass an evening wouldn't you say?
originally posted by: rigel4
originally posted by: Connell
a reply to: Freeborn
Bah, I got nothing against you anyway. I just don't like your country. Thanks for the argument, nice way to pass an evening wouldn't you say?
Not really.. your posting style is not appreciated by me or
most others on ATS
Its not how things work here.
Bah, I got nothing against you anyway.
I just don't like your country.
Thanks for the argument, nice way to pass an evening wouldn't you say?
originally posted by: Connell
Yeah, and you would never have gotten your vaunted industrialization were it not for Scottish inventions and Irish labor. It can rightly be argued the the Industrial Revolution began in Scotland. Funny how English peasants forget that (at the behest and subtle nudging of their masters, of course).
originally posted by: bigman88
She does not know anything except living under British rule. Nothing. She was born into it, went to school as a little girl being taught the values of Britain, was told on her media about the greatness of Britain, had her culture dominated by Britain. What else will she know?
Oh yeah, she grew up dirt poor. So did my Mom. That's what the excellent British did for Trinidad and Tobago. So basically she is going by the culture and there customs and not by economic prosperity.
Listen. She is Trinidadian, and should identify and be proud and a Trinidadian,
just as much as you should iidentify and be proud of being an Englishman. I would never say my culture and way of life, is better than yours; But you being an anglo-supremacist, can't see anything beneath your upward tilted nose.
How do you know the African nations would not have industrialized themselves? From here are you getting this besides your superiority fantasies.?
originally posted by: Gorman91
a reply to: bigman88
Oh it's hardly nationalism. I hate my nation. America is doomed. I agree with your grandmother. All good things flow from England these days. There's not much to deal with. The nations England touched overwhelmingly were less before English influence, and greater after English influence. Some cultures are superior. That's basic common sense. A culture that's ignorant, mystic, and attached to a dying way is inherently inferior to a culture that can adapt, move forward, progress, and self-learn.
Your interaction with spiritual beings may be nothing more than a brain talking to itself. No different than adream.
No not everyone needs to dress, talk, walk, like they're from England. But you may want to consider what the Latin Americans call Manifesto Antropófago. Sometimes, it is better to eat the flesh of your enemies to better yourself. That does not mean eat the whole body and wear the skin as your own. It simply means, some things taste better.
At some point in time Arabs and Nigerians were certainly beneath English standards. Hell, at some point in time, England was beneath "English standards". But England colonized those places. And those places are a hell of a lot better off than they were before that contact.
originally posted by: Gorman91
They move stones, we move mountains. It's really that simple. We are superior because our culture has allowed us a greater will to power than they. They are subject to nature's will. Nature is subject to our will. This inherently puts us above them. Our mistakes destroy their cultures, while we go on. Their mistakes disturb a single tree, and are hardly remembered.
This is why. Empires do not rise and fall. The empire has always existed, someone else has simply sat on the throne. Health and technology have always existed. We simply hold its keys now. Our standards create more. Their standards erase more.
Theirs is a shackle to kill the spirit. Ours a spear to kill our demons and free our souls.
from big man'
Disease? Disease where? What disease other than the disease that
foreigners brought over and introduced to the ecosystem?
originally posted by: Gorman91
a reply to: bigman88
They move stones, we move mountains. It's really that simple. We are superior because our culture has allowed us a greater will to power than they. They are subject to nature's will. Nature is subject to our will. This inherently puts us above them. Our mistakes destroy their cultures, while we go on. Their mistakes disturb a single tree, and are hardly remembered.
This is why. Empires do not rise and fall. The empire has always existed, someone else has simply sat on the throne. Health and technology have always existed. We simply hold its keys now. Our standards create more. Their standards erase more.
Theirs is a shackle to kill the spirit. Ours a spear to kill our demons and free our souls.
originally posted by: Gorman91
a reply to: bigman88
Nah you made the assumption that isolation = moral. I reject this hypothesis as something which historically has never been beneficial, and has only caused problems. I am indeed a supremacist, but by no means to a particular people or custom. English, after all, is an Anglo Saxon people with a Latin-Greek context to a Germanic language, with French words. Oh, and an Indian number system to boot.
I'm against isolation. I'm against living people "The F Alone". Humans were never created to stay in a cage and hide from their neighbors.
If you feel the need to put yourself in a cage being they only way to respect others, you don't have any correct view of reality. Luckily, you and others like you, by your nature, are a temporary phenomenon. The hermit neither reproduces nor is heard. He is a passing phenomenon doomed to the dust he places his hope in.
I'm not ignoring nature's wrath. I simply pride myself in the fact that we now have the tools to kill her wrath and cage her rage. Nature died a cold death. Only a god can resurrect her now. Believe it or not, because I believe in a God, I do think that will happen one day. But that day is not today. And so until the grave nature was duped in shakes and she emerges, I'm more than happy to pay my respects and built a skyscraper on her grave.