My article into opportunities lost by decolonisation and challenges it caused. People really need to visit former colonies to understand how they have fared. You cannot sit in luxury and condemn European imperialism while having no knowledge of poor families losing their lives while trying to flee Africa:
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Early Aus republicanism defined itself by its loyalty to the Crown and membership of the British race.
"...[they were] motivated by a desire to protect their British heritage, a desire to be more British than the British authorities would allow them to become."
This show was a real pleasure
One thing we spent a lot of time discussing is the unique culture of Rhodesia, a place that Alice described as being somewhat like America's Wild West, but also with doses of high-civilization formality
For example, at one point, she descibes how the family would dress up for every dinner and eat off of china...but would, when attacked, have to hastily crawl through the house away from danger as gunfire rained down on their farm compound, leopard crawling to the guns while dressed up and the china exploded around them!
There are many such other incredible stories besides, please check it out!
One of the many great collaborations that Santana did on his fantastic 2002 album that I had the benefit to listen to after coming back from school. Kind of wish Dido was still around as well.
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@Will_Tanner_1 I've always liked this photo of Mary Kingsley. The studio portraits (like this one) were great for showing the superior fashion they had the time.
American empire shares with European empires the universal and improving imperatives of Christianity. It differs only in its sometimes naive but always genuine belief in the self-governing capacity of all peoples. My debut in @AmReformer
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“We need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that White lives matter just as much as black lives.”
Farage is correct.
But the only way to change the culture of the Police is to reject the accusation of the Macpherson Report, that the Police are "institutionally racist".
Without expunging this ineradicable guilt, the Police will take it upon themselves to police the thoughts of the British public, punishing their negative opinions about violent imported minorities instead of the violent crimes themselves, to acquit themselves of the charge.
Which politician will be brave enough to break this lethal taboo?
Soleil est mort, the Sun is dead”: Lt Colonel Pierre Paul Jeanpierre, legendary para legionnaire commander leads 1er Regiment 1 REP legionnaires through Bone several weeks before his death on 29 May 1958, shot by guerrillas in a helicopter while directing his troops in battle.
Being There (1979) is a cinematic ink blot test, and we still don’t have a definitive answer for why Peter Sellers walks on water in the final shot. Is it a Christ allegory? Or is it the purest visual metaphor for Chance: a man so unburdened by ego, that he simply glides through life without ever breaking the surface. Or are we, like everyone in the film, projecting meaning onto a simple gardener and calling it a miracle? Maybe the joke's on us, life could be just a state of mind after all.
The realistic portrayal of the 'blowing from a gun' in this painting by Vasily Vereshchagin had me fooled it was a real photo before I learnt otherwise a few years ago. As a matter of fact, the realism of the graphic paintings done by Vasily meant they were never shown in public.
@Con_Tomlinson Read VS Naipaul's chapter on Jacques Soustelle in his book The Writer and the World. Soustelle believed that France's civic nationalism could have turned the colonial peoples into Frenchmen and Frenchwomen.
@Will_Tanner_1@CaudilloDahl@RoryDuncan1966 A Greek-Dutch captain who fought against Sukarno's forces in Indonesia. He later became the object of bitter vilification by the Indonesian government for his role during the war.
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@RacePopeIII If you can read French then I recommend General Raoul Salan's books that respectively focus on Ho Chi Minh and the French Indochina War. Salan had worked in French Indochina in the 1930s and became fluent in Laos.
R&B music from the 90s was far superior and cooler than what came later in the 2000s. It's also a credit to Dick Wolf with his show NY: Undercover that artists such as Groove Theory and SWV got air play. Not all the songs were great, but those that were great were phenomenal.
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