Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
I've always rolled my eyes at the noble savage idea, but what you say just makes you sound racist, it does not change anything.
The noble white man bringing culture to the half-apes is just a racist excuse for all the slavery, oppression and murder that were committed for corporate gains.

The truth is somewhere in the middle as it often is, but you only want to polarize since you only bring up the two extreme positions.
What would have become of their cultures without colonialism is only a big what-if since that never happened. I might as well claim that we'd all be better off if Hitler had conquered the planet.

And maybe you could actually make a substantiated claim and tell us what was horrible about their cultures and why ours were better. So far I only remember you making claims without any arguments about this.
You know, there was slavery, oppression and murder in Africa before the white guy came, no? It's not like the white guy invented it... The Arabs were the biggest buyers before, AND AFTER. The slave trade to arabic countries is still active, btw.

If you wonder about "examples" of horrible culture... You never once heard about cannibals, as an example? Heck, Africa even TODAY often have extremely horrible cultures with female mutilation, rapes, incest, honor cultures, tribal cultures... Yadda yadda...

If you want to direct your anger against how others have used blacks as slaves, look to the arabic countries, they are way more responsible. But that probably doesn't fit your bleeding heart leftist agenda.

I as a Swede can honestly say we had like nothing to do with the slave trade (we had one short lived station in Africa that handled little to no slaves).

But I should still have some "racial guilt"? are you for real?


Yeah, it is most often bad karma to be borne in Africa. The citizens they have there should REALLY start to sort it out.



About other native groups, it's rarely as bad as with Africans... I have heard some horror stories about Australian natives and their culture, but I know too little (and care too little) to say much about it.