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Dear
Martin,
Why
do you express
such hate and
contempt for
your fellow
Europeans? If
you were to do
the same
towards any
other race of
people you'd
condemn
yourself
as a "racist"! (Europe's
contempt for
other cultures).
Actually, I
can understand
it. Because I
sometimes feel
the same way
myself, seeing
my own race of
"stupid white
men" as the
most
disgusting and
contemptible
race on earth.
And there is
some (perhaps
a lot) of
truth in it,
of course;
certainly in
the way many
Europeans have
behaved, but
with no less
contempt and
brutality
towards their
own people as
towards
others.
But self-hate is not good. It fact, it is very bad, and can all too easily turn into hate of others, changing an "anti-racist" into a "racist" in the wink of an eye.
At
the end of the
day, we are
who we are,
and we need to
learn to love
ourselves
- warts an'
all. And that
includes our
own race - our
super-extended
family -
because that
is where we
come from and
where our
roots are.
Actually, as
Europeans, we
don't just
have much to
be ashamed of,
but also a
great deal to
be proud of,
not just but
especially in
respect to
science and
technology,
without which
the world
would still be
living in the
middle ages,
or in some
parts, the
stone age.
Unless science
and technology
had developed
in China or
India instead
- but would
they have used
the power it
gave them any
more humanely
than Europeans
did? Perhaps,
but I suspect
not.
Roger
Hicks
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