(December 3, 2020 at 6:58 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Admittedly, the roots of the war were more sociopolitical than racial (specifically over a mine that the Papua New Guineans were making bank off of but the Bougainvilleans weren't getting much more than the environmental devastation caused by mining), but the fact remains that ethnicity remains a component, and that even though I, as a white guy, legitimately can't tell the "blackskins" from the "redskins" (and, yes, the Bougainvilleans use that exact terminology to differentiate themselves from the people of mainland Papua New Guinea), they can.
I looked up on wikipedia of that war. Its said to be more of a cultural hate than it being ethnic hate in a sense.
