I've just arrived from holidays in a place where there's no TV, no radio, and obviously no Internet connection. When I arrived to "the civilised world" the first news I read were that the Spanish national basket team are accused by the British papers of being racist.
That's the same old story we are accostumed when we travel abroad. The same old fashion topics of Spain and the Spanish, so for me it's not a new deal. And it's not casual that the accusation comes from a country like England, which cities grew thanks to the human explotation of people from Africa taken to the New World to be slaves.
Spain had always that black history of destruction and anihilation of American inhabitants, but the real extermination was taken place in North-America, where, curiously, no Spanish arrived. It is true that civilizations died in the expansion of the Spanish Empire, but it is also true that in South and Central America there are still natives, and most important, the mixture of people and cultures created after the conquest of those lands . If I have to say sorry for the extermination of the native in name of my ancestors I will do with all my feelings, because now we know that we did very bad things, despite the good thins we did. But in North America the natives were reduced to live in small areas of their land, at least those who were not exterminated by the white saxons in their spread to the West.
Let's not forget the slavery issue. Two hundred years before the birth of the Beatles, the Liverpoolian Mathew St. was famous worldwide for the manufacturing of chains and the rest of torture stuff for the control of the black people. Liverpool is a great example of the slavery commerce. It is a city that exploted with the trade of slaves from Africa to America.
So, who's the one that has more to lose in this issue?
In the last years it seems that the British press has Spain in their eyes and I don't know why. The terrorism, the insecurity of the streets, now the racism... I don't know if it's because their Brits are leaving their country for a sunnier place, not only for vacation, but for living, but the press is trying to depict the Spanish as bad people when we aren't. It is true that there are racist people in Spain, but no more than in any other country. The thing is that we don't see some acts as others do. For us doing this gesture with the eyes is not proof of racism. For us, to identify a black person as black, like the football manager did, isn't racism. The problem is that the British and other cultures have a different point of view of what racism is. Have you seen the information The Guardian published in any chinese press?
Whe you try to judge some other culture under your position you are acting like a racist. So, mind your own bussiness, that's all that matters and forget what others do.
The image is taken from the Publico.es webpage/ Imagen sacada de publico.es
That's the same old story we are accostumed when we travel abroad. The same old fashion topics of Spain and the Spanish, so for me it's not a new deal. And it's not casual that the accusation comes from a country like England, which cities grew thanks to the human explotation of people from Africa taken to the New World to be slaves.
Spain had always that black history of destruction and anihilation of American inhabitants, but the real extermination was taken place in North-America, where, curiously, no Spanish arrived. It is true that civilizations died in the expansion of the Spanish Empire, but it is also true that in South and Central America there are still natives, and most important, the mixture of people and cultures created after the conquest of those lands . If I have to say sorry for the extermination of the native in name of my ancestors I will do with all my feelings, because now we know that we did very bad things, despite the good thins we did. But in North America the natives were reduced to live in small areas of their land, at least those who were not exterminated by the white saxons in their spread to the West.
Let's not forget the slavery issue. Two hundred years before the birth of the Beatles, the Liverpoolian Mathew St. was famous worldwide for the manufacturing of chains and the rest of torture stuff for the control of the black people. Liverpool is a great example of the slavery commerce. It is a city that exploted with the trade of slaves from Africa to America.
So, who's the one that has more to lose in this issue?
In the last years it seems that the British press has Spain in their eyes and I don't know why. The terrorism, the insecurity of the streets, now the racism... I don't know if it's because their Brits are leaving their country for a sunnier place, not only for vacation, but for living, but the press is trying to depict the Spanish as bad people when we aren't. It is true that there are racist people in Spain, but no more than in any other country. The thing is that we don't see some acts as others do. For us doing this gesture with the eyes is not proof of racism. For us, to identify a black person as black, like the football manager did, isn't racism. The problem is that the British and other cultures have a different point of view of what racism is. Have you seen the information The Guardian published in any chinese press?
Whe you try to judge some other culture under your position you are acting like a racist. So, mind your own bussiness, that's all that matters and forget what others do.
The image is taken from the Publico.es webpage/ Imagen sacada de publico.es
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