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Likewise. There were some good parts to the Civil War series but that professor you mentioned was rather annoying. The historians in the current miniseries are mostly people I have never heard of. A couple of them appear white but identify with one or another of the NY Indian tribes. So there is a lot about the whites taking “Indian land.” The current series has some good bits—I liked the part about Arnold’s campaign through the Maine wilderness because I recently gave a talk about the 1775 invasion of Canada. But too much political correctness and bashing the Founding Fathers.
If only Arnold hadn’t run into Peggy Shippen ! But considering his But considering the character flaw that episode revealed, maybe it was providential he did.
What? Isn’t Islam supposed to be the religion of peace? Did they lie?
“Sudan’s a very racist country. Let me say that from the outset. The reason that we have had so many wars in Sudan that are all based on ethnicity is because the Sudanese state has never created a common Sudanese national identity. But now civilians are being forced into choosing a side simply out of survival. And that is what’s going to make it very difficult, even if there is a ceasefire at some point, to create coexistence in communities.”
A national identity, a common set of core values, goals, and desire to see each other as equal parts of the same entity. The U.S. would be wise to pay attention. Everything from kids no longer saying the Pledge of Allegiance to Dearbornistan, to polarizing politics, to the ‘salad bowl’ vs. ‘melting pot’, etc.
The borders drawn during the “scramble for Africa” often don’t make much sense (like the Caprivi Strip belonging to Namibia) but they were mostly kept when the colonies became independent countries. They often put hostile ethnic groups in the same country. In the case of the Sudan, the southern area was mostly “animist” or Christian and they were finally allowed to become a separate country but that is rare. The former British Somaliland wants to break away from Somalia but no one will support them.
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