Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "How Countries Were INVENTED" video.

  1.  @lubu2960   nu person chiming in here- yes I'm by no means an expert but I have heard due to the conquest by the Spanish invaders in the 16th C., whiteness became a prized trait and has historically been viewed as more desirable, granting one access to the higher rungs of society. I don't know if this was true for everyone everywhere in South America, but this has been my impression that a prejudice in favor of whiteness was present. I imagine that even today there are lingering effects of this throughout the regions, considering these social realities presumably existed to a greater or lesser degree for 100s of years. There certainly is the case here in the US. I mean, it still amazes me when I look back over the last 400 years just how extreme and entrenched the policies of Black slavery (and later 100 years give or take of Jim Crow), and Native American removal/annihilation became amongst those who carried them out, and their sympathizers in the public. The legacy of bigotry and white supremacy in the South still holds strong with a fair-sized segment of the population today unfortunately. You can see this in a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle ways, altho people are fighting back and this is changing, some in more symbolic ways and some more substantial. I can only hope in time this prejudiced racialized nonsense will continue to die off, and not be replaced by getting passed down to the next generation as it has been in too many cases so far. I do think we're finally turning a corner on the last holdouts of bigotry and ignorance here, at least in the public sphere, altho it's by no means over. We still have a long ways to go to marginalize a major political party called the GOP, one whom openly courts racism and xenophobia in it's voters and members and leads attacks on voting rights for POC. We still have a lot of work to do to dismantle the system of mass incarceration, a racially-motivated system of oppression that has been in place now for 40 years, craftily begun under Reagan and carried out faithfully in many states since. There's still a LOT of hard work ahead of us to be done before anything like full equality, dignity and opportunity can be said to exist for ALL US citizens regardless of their color or financial background- and that is a shame. It sure as shit shouldn't be taking this long- but it is. (I'm sure there will probably always be some people who will refuse to give up their carefully-held prejudice for whatever reason, but as long as they keep it to themselves and don't use it as an excuse for violence, I can live with it.)
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  2.  @lubu2960  but being European equated to being lighter skinned. There's no one in Eastern or Western Europe (unless they came from somewhere else), and probably many Western parts of Russia, who wouldn't be considered "white" under a north or south American colonial system. Up here in the US, the Irish and Italians were discriminated against for a while, but nowhere near the extent of POC, and that disappeared in a relatively short period of time. Meanwhile, various pockets of prejudice towards those of dark skin tones continues to this day. I would imagine something similar was or is true of South America; altho I'm sure with regional differences.
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  3. Yeah me too. It has always been a dream of mine to die bravely fighting for the IRS (US tax office). Or the patent office. A more noble personal sacrifice one can hardly conceive of. For the taxes and patents, stalwart friends!!
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  4. Wow those are brilliant words and never truer than today. There are millions around the world that need to hear them (most probably right where I live in the usa) and wake up to this simple fact; so they can stop being so blindly emotionally manipulated by those on high for their own nefarious or destructive purposes, and often, though not always, at that ordinary person's expense. Man, such simple words; really a shame more people won't take note and heed them. I mean I'm nothing special, but I woke up to this scam years ago. Concepts like these are just FICTION; they're all just ideas generated by those in power or those connected to big money to program people's emotions to serve an AGENDA, their agenda, and people (us average ordinary rustics) should be smarter than to constantly fall for it.
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  5. Uh oh 😂....don't go down that path fren... It's not great...
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  6. I think 100 years from now, and certainly by 200, many of the borders now taken for granted will look quite different. Regions and their respective autonomy have been changing and shifting for as long as Man has been alive, and I see no reason why this would stop now. I feel that semi-loose alliances and confederations of current countries within a given geographical region will develop and become much more of the dominant regional identifier of the not-too-distant future (and not just because I like various forms of sci-fi where similar eventualities exist).
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  7.  @idontwantahandlethough  thanks for your nice comment, I'll be sure get back to you!
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  8. Tom, you are either an adorable well-educated hobbit, or a fecking smart 10 year old. I'm not sure which yet, but I intend to let you know as soon as I've decided.
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  9.  @Pyro-Moloch  wow... This is very fascinating for me. I'm on the other side of the world so I know nothing of your region I'm sorry to say, but from what you say is it true then you and others from your region see the former USSR as a colonizer?? Is that what happened previously? What group do you seek independence for? Is Azerbaijan its own country right now, and is that where you live and seek indepence from? I'm just curious.
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  10. I'm curious as to the reasoning of those who downvoted. Probably because the idea of nation-states suddenly changing in any measurable way, or eroding, feels very disconcerting to them. After all it's all they've ever known and it's hard to imagine anything else in it's place.
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