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Reply to "Dr Bato on a Rage..."

Originally Posted by seignet:

When my people came to the colony, they had an immigration number. On the immigration card, distinguishable marks were recorded and the caste along with the nearest police station.

 

Abu Bakr, being a Muslim must know his forefathers back in Africa who were Muslims considered themselves enlightened. And were not inhabited in enslaving the infidels they invaded in the many villages throughout the African continent.

 

Abu Bakr, should b reminded, Africa is an old culture. Just like India, And both are tribal societies.

 

Why is the caste system so demonized when in Africa, some tribes just kill the less respected ones.

 

These disussions get us no where. Too much free time Abu Bakr has. 

What nonsense are you writing.  There is no such thing as "African" culture.  There are the cultures of the wide varieties of ethnicities which exist between what we now know as Senegal and what we now know as Angola.  This is the breadth of origin of the enslaved peoples who were brought to the Americans.

 

In addition, generations of life in a multi cultural environment have transformed all of us from what our ancestors were. We have changed, and so have the lands from which we originated India of 1860 is not the India of 2015.  Indo Guyanese are also very different from their Asian counterparts.  Evidence of this is the fact that, despite large numbers of both groups living in close proximity to each other in NYC, they have virtually nothing in common.

 

Its the racist purist that terms "creolization" to be a negative factor, wiping out cultures. Indeed most people will view Trinidad, Guyana, and Suriname to be culturally rich. 

 

Not only because they are multi ethnic, and therefore multi culture, but the entire creolization process means that each ethnic group is exposed to a broader range of cultural possibilities, as they become exposed to other cultures.  Each person is able to operate on a continuum of various cultures, based on context.  Each person is also able to combine the various cultures in ways that suit him.

 

Take Trinidad.  Where else in the world would one find parang soca chutney.  This being a combination of an Afro Hispanic, an Afro creole, and an Indo creole cultural expression.   It brings together the traditions of Spain, Africa (as it manifests in the Spanish and English speaking Caribbean), and India.

 

 

Too bad racists like you think that this is wrong. Oddly enough this is fascinating to many from India.  I am sure we can remember the Indo soca music produced by that Asian Indian couple in the 80s.

FM
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