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28 may 2001
there is peace in guyana. at least on the surface.
since all is good in guyana, it is time to focus
on what was intended.
most guyanese in america are...cowards. they
take the easy way out instead of living with some amount of pride,
and live their culture by birthright.
as i type this, i feel age and wisdom creeping
into me. i try to explain to myself why guyanese act this way.
i consider the fact that the civilised [not "civilized";
all spelling here is west indian] man has to adapt to his environment
in order to survive. but then i witness this adaptation and i
am disgusted at how it is unnecessarily exaggerated.
i consider myself civilised, but i don't "adapt"
to american culture.
could i be wrong? this made
me smile. it's sunshine to know that our flag is being glorified
with pride even when we (or rather 'i'?) think it isn't?
nevertheless, i do feel that they should show
more pride and stop making excuses.
i am granted the privelege to talk about it
with a considerably large audience, and i will.
if you'd like to share an experience that supports
what this site talks about, you
can e-mail me or use the message board to your advantage.(e-mailing
me is better; i think you have to join to post a message)
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on the night of may 26th 2001, racial riots
erupted in oldham, england. the riots between whites and indians
(pakistani, bangladeshi,...) is the worst race-related violence
in 15 years. the tensions have political roots, but it was ignited
by a group of white men who attacked the home of a pregnant asian
woman.
500 young asian men retaliated by attacking
the police with petrol bombs and stones, described as a night
of "ferocity and sheer carnage". the tactics of the
police arose suspicions, producing further tension. click
here for more information on the racial riots in oldham, england.
does this look familiar?
why do i mention this?
we were colonised by the british and may vaguely
explain our own racial problems:
prejudice is taught, inherited; it is not genetical,
we are not born with the concept of 'hate'.
i know this is a very unbalanced assumption,
but why not?
the similarities between the riots in oldham
and and the ones in georgetown are interesting. violence against
the police, the involvement of politicians, strinkingliy similar
acts of violence,....
i could elaborate and give a full discussion
of why i make this assumption, but my point is this:
our "racial" tensions may have been
taught to us by our colonisers.
"racial" appears in quotation marks
because i feel that racism does not truly exist in guyana. it
is just an excuse for our acts during 'riot season'.
as i have asked before, can we really say that
blacks hate indians, or vice versa?
no.
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