The end of the European Middle Ages and early modern era, the great expedition Europe to conquer the world, the subjugation of others and the robbery of his goods have written with blood and cruelty in the history of our planet. The extent of the genocidal practices of that era, which lasted over three centuries, will be exceeded only in the twentieth century, from the macabre features of the Holocaust.
For Europeans in those days, move to conquer the planet, the other takes the form of a naked savage, cannibalistic and pay for the European - white and Christian - is a sacred right and duty to subdue and tread . One of the reasons dell'inaudita brutality and cruelty that characterized the whites was not merely greed for gold and slaves who devoured the minds blinded and the European elites, but also the moral and cultural level of those who were incredibly low for the world sent on ahead of others. The crews of the vessels were composed for most of the criminals, notorious criminals and bandits, or, at best, of vagrants, homeless and bankrupt. Difficult, indeed, to convince the average person to go to a travel-adventure often destined to end in death.
The fact that for centuries Europe has sent to meet each other (and especially to meet him for the first time) its worst stretch representatives left a shadow on our relations with others, will form our current views on them, strengthen our minds stereotypes, prejudices and phobias, in one form or another, still continue to exist.
It will take many thousands of years before facing the human mind is the suspicion of a possible equality between ourselves and each other.
For Europeans in those days, move to conquer the planet, the other takes the form of a naked savage, cannibalistic and pay for the European - white and Christian - is a sacred right and duty to subdue and tread . One of the reasons dell'inaudita brutality and cruelty that characterized the whites was not merely greed for gold and slaves who devoured the minds blinded and the European elites, but also the moral and cultural level of those who were incredibly low for the world sent on ahead of others. The crews of the vessels were composed for most of the criminals, notorious criminals and bandits, or, at best, of vagrants, homeless and bankrupt. Difficult, indeed, to convince the average person to go to a travel-adventure often destined to end in death.
The fact that for centuries Europe has sent to meet each other (and especially to meet him for the first time) its worst stretch representatives left a shadow on our relations with others, will form our current views on them, strengthen our minds stereotypes, prejudices and phobias, in one form or another, still continue to exist.
It will take many thousands of years before facing the human mind is the suspicion of a possible equality between ourselves and each other.
- Ryszard Kapuściński
- The other
- Feltrinelli
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