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02-09-07, 07:13 AM
Mr. Black Lion,
I find your analysis of Jamaicans intriguing and wonder if it has something to do with England’s unique brand of colonization and slave management. For example, Thailand and Cambodia are neighboring countries with very similar cultural values and practices. Nonetheless, the Cambodians have been treated to horrific acts of violence, first at the hands of the French, and then at the hands of the Khmer Rouge after de-colonization. Thailand, on the other hand, was never colonized and is a relatively nonviolent society. Did the Cambodians passion for, and tolerance of violence grow under French rule?
As we consider the propensity for violence in the cultures of Africans and Africans in the Diaspora can it be said that the practices of one particular European colonizer were more likely to precipitate themes of violence within the enslaved and/or colonized than others? Off the top of my head, African Americans, Jamaicans and Nigerians (i.e., within Nigeria) are all associated with disproportionate acts of violence, and all three are shaped by British dominance and cultural control. Is there a common thread?
Holla!
Last edited by Neferkare; 02-09-07 at 07:31 AM.
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