Bread for my teeth

The polemic goes on:

1. Harry Says:
November 28th, 2006 at 12:56 pm

> ALL the USA citizens were once Europeans

I had no idea that Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries had so many blacks and Asians.
Another example of how Europeans are utterly clueless when it comes to understanding America. Or maybe they haven’t figured out how to use Google yet.


1. Patrizia Broghammer Says:

November 29th, 2006 at 2:30 am

“I had no idea that Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries had so many blacks and Asians.”

I think that if we Europeans do not know how to use Google, sometimes Americans do not know History.
The Blacks were IMPORTED there against their will, let’s drop a curtain on it too, (but yes the trade of the Slaves was mostly done by Europeans) and the Asians came much later.
That means that :
1) America was discovered by a mistake by Cristoforo Colombo, who, knowing that the earth was round, but ignoring its size, thought to reach the Indies going in the opposite direction.
Infact the aborigens in America were called Indies.

2) Since they soon found out it was a rich country they slowly took possession of it, in ways that today we wouldn’t describe as “moral”.

3) I just pointed out that when you are rich you easily think that “everything is due and your right”, which is NOT THE CASE.
And I am not an idealistic or religious person (or communist).
I am just objective.
And it wouldn’t hurt sometimes to try to see life from another point of view.
For example from the point of view of the ones who clean our toilets.