Intentionally Wiping out a Peoples' History, page 1
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reply posted on 1-10-2003 @ 02:19 AM by Loki
This doesn't have to be just about black people. Anyone here ever heard of the Jomon? They were the people that the Japanese did wrong. Quite like the way that the Americans destroyed Native cultures, so did the Japanese to the Jomon. The Jomon were peaceful, and worshipped a single goddess, and then, there was a food shortage on mainland asia. A massive number of chinese migrants pushed the Jomon into the sea, almost literally. They pressed the belief of Shinto onto them, and eventually, all remnants of the Jomon culture was wiped out. It's pretty sad, really, but I theorize that that sort of behaviour is, in a way, human nature. Everyone has the need to be right, always. It's just the way things are. That is shown on a macrocultural scale, in examples such as that one. Even entire cultures do that, even the US, which is the land of tolerance, supposedly. We have young people being raised by ultra-conservative, pro-bush, super-republicans, who would rather eat their own feces than recognize the rights of the lower-class worker to the over one trillion dollars stolen from them in the last fiscal year. This is an example of highly defined class division, and to a lesser extent the erasure of lower class (traditionally Immigrants and their families) identity. The US has a culture all it's own, albeit borrowed and stolen from several others...and we are expected to conform in such a way as to erase our own personal heritages. Let's be honest, how many of you actually belive that George W. Bush, or anyone who is within one mile of him has ever enjoyed some of the customs of a minority group? Has he ever gone on christmas eve to ligt Luminarias? Has he ever eaten a Latke? I'm of the opinion that we need to come together to preserve our culture, and as I'm lower class myself, I want that trillion in deficit back. Most of it won't even come back to the US economy. It's not my parents' problem, it's mine, and I refuse to be lumped together with the rest of my countrymen as an "American". I will be my own person, and I encourage you to be too. By losing a trillion dollars this year, we've been forced to accept it as 'good for the country.', being fed the same line of rhetoric over and over again about how it's important that we all be the same. How the odd child in elementary school never gets picked for something, because his beliefs prevent him from making christmas trees with the rest of his class, or because he can't say the pledge of allegiance. These are just tools used to make us all one race, divided by the economic status quo only, with one set of beliefs.

Sorry about that. i started to ramble. Shutting up now. Peace.


reply posted on 1-10-2003 @ 10:06 AM by lonestar
okay, okay... hold on there. Back to the thing about the Sphinx being mutilated by Napoleon. Read this:

Another book from about the same time, In the Footsteps of Napoleon (1915) by James Morgan (p 85), states "There is a tradition among the Arabs of the Pyramids that all the scars ...which the Sphinx carries, were inflicted by Napoleon's soldiers, who used its mystifying and majestic countenance as a target. That, however, is only a legend for the tourist. Long before the discovery of gunpowder, the Arabs had laid iconoclastic hands on the beard of this god of the desert..." Though the Arab guides may have originally spread this tale, this myth appears to have been perpetuated over the years by countless teachers the world over who have passed this bit of "history" on to their students.

This error has persisted in spite of the fact that the truth can be readily found in such common reference sources as the Encyclopedia Americana (Danbury, CT: Grolier, 1995). vol.25, p.492-3 under "Sphinx", which states: "Over the centuries the Great Sphinx has suffered severely from weathering...Man has been responsible for additional mutilation. In 1380 A.D. the Sphinx fell victim to the iconoclastic ardor of a fanatical Muslim ruler, who caused deplorable injuries to the head. Then the figure was used as a target for the guns of the Mamluks."

In the book The Egyptian Pyramids: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990), p.301, the author, J.P. Lepre, adds the fact that, in addition to the 14th century damage, "The face was further disfigured by the eighteenth century A.D. ruler of Egypt, the Marmalukes [Mamluks]."

The whole honkin' Huge Article:
www.napoleonseries.org...
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