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Topic	Do europeans really understand the n word?
Hicks233 12/07/18 1:22:10 PM #27:	darkphoenix181 posted... Hicks233 posted... There is also the part where many of us are sick of hearing things from the US perspective and really don't give a f* if things upset it. To some extent I suspect that for some people, they will deliberately go out of their way to aggravate US commentators and audiences because that are so fed up of the US cultural extent. That does make sense. Maybe not the smartest thing to do if you income relies on a us company but I get it. It's also worth remembering that European nations are largely racially homogeneous. It's only over the past fifty or so years that there's been a significant non-white group migrating and settling. If someone from the US were to raise issues of African-American identity, disparaging remarks and mistreatment here, there's no reason really for most of those European nations to give a shit, we're not American after all. Exceptions would be Belgian actions in the Congo, Spanish, UK, French, German, Italian and Dutch colonial activity - in those cases though it's going to be about the actions of ancestors and how they behaved in other nations - makes for some really grim reading. That's our history. Also, if you have people of African/Caribbean etc. ancestry who have migrated and settled in a country - particularly applicable for the UK and France given their colonial history and post independence relationships with those nations then there is going to be more awareness of issues of Black identity and treatment - it's just not going to be viewed through a US lens. This is really apparent when it comes to the issue of slavery. The UK was one of the forerunners in ending the Trans-Atlantic slave trade so when there are attempts to push the "ebil white man" narrative here then it gets people's back up. We're certainly not perfect, the UK's actions around the world thoughout history have been pretty fucking dismal, check India and Ireland esspecially. We're not going to only be shit on though when we have also done some good things. All it is going to come down to is frames of reference and the cultural lens things are viewed through. --- http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=9458 So says Mr. Stewart. <cite>Hicks233 posted [p:913719428] in Do europea... [t:77278222]...</cite> <quote><cite>darkphoenix181 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Hicks233 posted...</cite> <quote>There is also the part where many of us are sick of hearing things from the US perspective and really don't give a f* if things upset it. To some extent I suspect that for some people, they will deliberately go out of their way to aggravate US commentators and audiences because that are so fed up of the US cultural extent.</quote> That does make sense. Maybe not the smartest thing to do if you income relies on a us company but I get it.</quote> It's also worth remembering that European nations are largely racially homogeneous. It's only over the past fifty or so years that there's been a significant non-white group migrating and settling. If someone from the US were to raise issues of African-American identity, disparaging remarks and mistreatment here, there's no reason really for most of those European nations to give a shit, we're not American after all. Exceptions would be Belgian actions in the Congo, Spanish, UK, French, German, Italian and Dutch colonial activity - in those cases though it's going to be about the actions of ancestors and how they behaved in other nations - makes for some really grim reading. That's our history. Also, if you have people of African/Caribbean etc. ancestry who have migrated and settled in a country - particularly applicable for the UK and France given their colonial history and post independence relationships with those nations then there is going to be more awareness of issues of Black identity and treatment - it's just not going to be viewed through a US lens. This is really apparent when it comes to the issue of slavery. The UK was one of the forerunners in ending the Trans-Atlantic slave trade so when there are attempts to push the "ebil white man" narrative here then it gets people's back up. We're certainly not perfect, the UK's actions around the world thoughout history have been pretty fucking dismal, check India and Ireland esspecially. We're not going to only be shit on though when we have also done some good things. All it is going to come down to is frames of reference and the cultural lens things are viewed through. --- http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=9458 So says Mr. Stewart.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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