You can learn a lot from these people!

A Message you will NEVER hear "normally", from the Oppressed Peoples of the World So YOU feel OPPRESSED? What if you look at our Situation from a truly thought-through position but from a very different perspective? So that you might actually see the SIMILARITIES between us and them, and work to reduce the influence of these problems in your own life! (To note: the author and his people were forced into the Christian belief system, thus uses terms like "repent"; but the author is not dogmatic, merely stating facts as he has lived them.) Here are several excerpts from this free online book (linked at bottom). Definitely worthy of your time! Imagine yourself as a free BL/MAP when you are suddenly faced with SADvocate Strangers for the first time, say, in your MAP village: "One day a complete stranger, with different...language, and culture came into the village. He came with a big smile, bringing many good things like...and the Good News. [Our people] accepted and treated him like a family member. They thanked him. They adored him. They respected him a lot. However, over time, this guest was building up something that would eventually destroy the joy and happiness of the family. During his stay there, the guest had realised that this family had many things that he needed for his home village. Here is one of his thoughts.“Hmm, we have finished all that we had. We have eaten all. This family has lots of things here and this is unfair. But this family is stupid. They do not even use what is around them. They leave these things as they are because they are primitive. How foolish. They are poor amidst their wealth. I must invite my people and find as many ways as possible to get rid of this family and take what they have here. They do not even know how to manage what they have because they are uneducated, primitive, and undeveloped. If they need anything, we can offer them things to make them happy, meanwhile taking the precious things from this village. If there are more villagers, we must think about how to expel them from this area, so that we can own this village, just as we did in Africa, Australia and America”. (...) "The world is becoming homogenised and diversity is becoming extinct. "We are all brutally brought into dependence and under total control of the Western world because they think their models are the only ones that all creatures should live by. That world will be characterised by monoculture in every aspect of life. This is a great disaster for humanity and bio-diversity, and all from great changes that only started less than five centuries ago. The only way to stop this from happening is for the West to sit down, to reflect, to re-examine and to repent their brutal misconduct. Repentance from being exploitative; repentance from feeling superior; repentance from feeling more civilised; repentance from calling others Third World and primitive; repentance from behaving destructively towards bio-diversity etc. "It is ‘the West’ that is dominating the world and endangering the earth and its bio-diversity. The West brought most of the disasters on this earth. They developed civilisation. Their civilisation developed all of the bad things that you can mention in the whole history of humanity and of the planet Earth. It starts with developing industry in agriculture. They learned how to ‘conquer’ all plants and ‘subdue’ them as they wish. One example; almost no park in Britain has untidy or natural plants because all grass, trees, flowers are cut and made tidy. The phrase ‘look nice’ is there in their mind. Whenever they work, they always think, “This should look nice,” regardless of whether the ‘niceness’ is natural or made up. Even stranger, in some offices they have plastic plants very tidily placed. “Looks nice?”. They do not care about naturalness but ‘nice’ and ‘tidy’ always come to their minds when subduing the plants. "Another step further, they learn how to conquer and subdue the animals. It is not surprising to see many people in the West raise wild animals as their pets. They think it is good to keep dogs and cats as pets. The main point is they want to subdue them, nothing else. They like dogs to go with them, they like cats to sit beside them. They are not happy if they find foxes in the bush. They get mad if they see lions in the garden. Some of them cannot wander around in bushes if they ever found even a baby lion in the bush. They will run if they see a small rat in their room. They will send animal police to get it and to subdue it. "Subduing the plants and animals does not satisfy them. They are not satisfied [with] only exploiting natural resources on the earth. They even started to sell and buy other human beings. This is what they call slavery. Worse than that, not only do they sell, buy and treat people like they do animals but also they killed and wiped out many tribal people who existed in the lands before the West arrived. The examples are obvious in Africa, Australia, America and New Guinea. These all happened in the colonial era. "I know that Indian Americans, Black Africans, Maori New Zealanders, Australian Aborigines, New Guinean Melanesians are aware of this. This is the exploitation of cultural, racial, linguistic and natural resources. Slavery. If not, what do you call it? "In this era of neo-colonialism they still support practices that aim at eliminating tribal populations on this earth. They are not satisfied with what they have done in America, Australia and Africa. They do not feel embarrassed with their past misconduct, and they never will. They always have something to justify their misconduct. (...) "As I mentioned above all beings are being made to become one. Some countries have proven and shown themselves to be ‘superpowers’ and have demonstrated their ‘superiority’ over other countries. We are in the middle of the process towards a ‘boring oneness’. It is unpredictable whether this ‘superiority’ will last through the next century. It is a mystery because it causes such misery for the beings of the earth. "Plants, animals and human beings are suffering because of the modern culture of the Western world. This culture is driven to become imperial over all other cultures." (...) "In my eyes as a tribal person, these change-agents are enemies of tribal people. They change the existing culture, killing it and replacing it with their own. The great threat is the change from interdependency towards dependency i.e. dependency on the West because they possess that which makes us dependent; money, banks, technology, science, education, to mention a few. By imposing their beliefs, their education, their religion, their culture and their democracy, they are deliberately making us dependent on them. They are expanding their markets by imposing their ‘aid’." (...) "Of course, we are already late in the day, but better late than never. The enemies are blind, they are deaf, they are mad. They have done, are doing, and will do whatever they can to destroy the natural life. What tribal community should do is to realise this and act upon this knowledge to resist properly and effectively. "There are four enemies of the Tribal Community on this earth. They are; 1) Religious organisations 2) Governments 3) NonGovernmental Organisations(NGOs) and particularly the Aid Organisations (AOs) and 4) Multinational Corporations (MNCs). [ed's note: later the author says there is a difference between Aid orgs and NGOs, tho if he understood better, i suspect he would include NGOs along with the rest, due to their practitioners "internalized values" (Chomsky) and such mindsets conducive and complementing neocolonialism.] "These four ‘people’ show themselves as ‘messengers’ from somewhere better, safer, wealthier and more modern on this earth. A simple message that they bring is “You are wrong in who, what and how you are, therefore, you need to change, and we know how you can change your life”. They have a concept of what is correct and what is wrong based on their own culture. Even worse, they judge other cultures based on their ‘correctness’ and ‘wrongness’, without any compromise to the culture they encounter." (...) "Believe me, there are ‘hidden agendas’, and these hidden agendas are not to help us, not to make us good. They are all to kill us. They are all to destroy us. Some destroy our basis of living, some destroy our physical life and some destroy our essence of life. Therefore, I cannot say that religion is better than government. I cannot say that NGOs are better than religion. There is no comparative judgement to make. They are all wrong. They are all exploitative; they are all killing us. It is as simple as that. (...) "Interestingly, we are more concerned about our physical obliteration than that of our roots and identity. Religious groups and aid agencies are more dangerous than governments and MNCs. Because we regard them as good, and they regard themselves as do-gooders they will never admit they are killing us, killing our culture." (...) "Alien values are implanted into the lives of the people, precisely through the children; alien, not merely in the sense of foreign or exotic, but alien to humanity: a commerciogenic identity is formed. At first it was partly resisted, but with time, it became more and more acceptable, until it has now become a major determinant on the lives of the young, displacing all earlier forms of acculturation, other ways of answering need, other ways of being in the world. This process of forgetting, beyond recall, but perhaps not quite beyond reclamation, is a form of colonialism far more effective than that which held so much of the world in thrall in an earlier empire." ----Jeremy Seabrook in 'The Metamorphoses of Colonialsm' (https site) South Pacific Indigenous words to his people and you [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst]