Posted by: Captain Haddock August 18, 2006
China tells US to shut up!
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Sidster - Thank for your kind words about me. I don't deserve if but it was nice of you to say it. I mean no offense, but I have to say the lens through which you are looking at the world ("white" versus non-white) is the wrong one and cannot be an objective basis for comparison for some of the things you talk about. I am starting to cringe every time you use the word "white", because besides being factually incorrect about the actual color of the skin, it reflects a very simplistic outlook of the world that is far detached from reality. Who says "whites" are "united in their common interest"? Where? How? And what exactly is that common interest? The West is also allied with Japan which isn't white. It's economic interest and the balance of power amongst *NATIONS* and not races that is determining common interests and alliances. Same goes for US and India. The two are getting closer and closer not because of the common ground "whites" and "browns" can find but because of common interests between countries. The global system today is driven by the need for all to make money and not the need for one race to dominate another. That got over in 1945 when Hitler shot himself after his theory, very similar to yours, failed miserably in practice. The argument that there isn't poverty or war amongst countries with large "white" populations has nothing to do with racial superiority. Corelation does not mean cause. War, poverty, opression are normally a function of the age of a nation and all countries have to go through them till they reach an internal equilibrium. The US went through it (civil war, slavery, poverty, colonialism), the British went through their own stretches of poverty and power grabs through execution (remember Mary, Queen of Scotts?). Countries in Asia and Africa that face these problems today are going through a natural cycle of nation building. They too will get over it - some sooner than others - but eventually everyone is bound to break this cycle. And "whites" do resists others of their own race. Dude, I am not sure what type of Caucasians you have run into, but I think your observation is totally wrong. I see it all the time both at the individual level and the collective level. The Soviet Union that resisted the US for 70 years was hardly a black- majority state. "U gave me answers within the circle. Things that i already know. Better oppurtunity leading to better creation but I want to know how and why were those oppurtunites created? who created those oppurtunities? why werent those oppurtunities created in non white world?" I am trying to find the right words to answer this question because I don't want to sound harsh, especially after your kind words. But, again no offense, the way I honestly feel about this is either you were sleeping through school and college or you are being lazy and not going out there and checking the proven facts about this issue and you expect me to do your homework for you on this subject. I am gritting my teeth as I say this but the answer to " I want to know how and why were those opportunites created? who created those oppurtunities? " is three fold, like I said earlier quoting Jared Diamond. It is (1) the use of technology, (2) use of weapons and (3) geographic happenstance that allowed these opportunites to be created. And none of this has anything to do with racial superiority. But it has everything to do with necessity. In as simple words as I can put it, inventions have happened when there has been a need for it, and often times the people who needed something the most, invented it. If you are interested in more specifics (like why did some people feel the need and not others at a particular time), I would recommend you catch up on some reading. I would recommend the following: (1) Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond. Also check this link : - http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/34.2/mcneill.html (2)Collapse - How Societies Fail and succeed. Jared Diamond (3) The Clash of Civilizations . Samuel Huntington. While he talks of the clash of civilization, he indirectly bolsters the argument that there are competitive civilizations around the world capable to going shoulder to shoulder with one another.
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