(September 10, 2014 at 5:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:It often surprises me how many white people seem ashamed of being white.
Studying history will do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
Quote:Although Kipling's poem mixed exhortation to empire with somber warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States of America understood the phrase "white man's burden" as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise. Because of its theme and title, it has become emblematic both of Eurocentric racism and of Western aspirations to dominate the developing world.[
I am pretty we'll versed in history, and I will tell you this. Every race has accomplishments to be proud of and many things not to be proud of. Take the Berbers for example, in many ways they were some of the most advanced people of there time, yet they sold more slaves then anyone. Or the Mexicans, whom up until the industrial revolution had some of the best planned and most beautiful cities in the world, barring the fate of their previous tenants. It is something that is univseral to humanity and has nothing to do with race, barring the xenophobia exhibited by some members of every race.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
