For the purposes of this discussion, "White" is not a race but rather a culture and a set of shared values. Any country that Freedom House rates as "Free" is Euro-American or what Kipling called "White" no matter what its inhabitants' actual skin color happens to be. The same goes for any individual who shares our superior Euro-American values; he or she is "one of us" no matter what he or she looks like.
Now we will look at a few stanzas from The White Man's Burden.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
The latter is certainly descriptive of the teenage boys in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and also of Palestinians. It's obvious that an independent Palestinian state would be Lord of the Flies starring adults instead of kids, complete with lynchings and femicide of women who "dishonor" themselves by being raped by their brothers or uncles. (Note: I recommend the term "femicide" instead of "honor killing" because femicide is dishonorable. Palestinians are without honor anyway, as shown by their trail of broken truces and peace agreements.)
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
(The end for others sought)
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.
This was certainly played out in Gaza, where well-meaning culturally-superior Euro-Americans gave the Palestinians greenhouses in which to grow food for themselves and for exports. The Palestinians looted and destroyed the greenhouses within hours. They also burned down synagogues that could have been converted into houses, schools, hospitals, or even mosques. Iraqi terrorists, meanwhile, kidnap and murder foreign aid workers who are trying to make life better for the Iraqi people.
Take up the White Man's burden,
And reap his old reward--
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Some people curse Western civilization for destroying native cultures that included quaint medieval practices like burning widows alive (suttee), ritual murder by followers of the goddess Kali (thuggee), the slave trade, female genital mutilation, stoning women to death for adultery, cutting off people's hands, and so on.
In conclusion, it is time to stop apologizing for our superior Euro-American culture and time to stop recognizing Third World dirt cultures and trash cultures as our equals. If anyone squeals that we are "racist," our reply should be that Palestinians are homo sapiens by birth but subhuman by behavior and choice.
The White Man's Burden: Kipling was right
by Bill Levinson
An open letter to the multiculturalists: EURO-AMERICAN CULTURE IS SUPERIOR. LIVE WITH IT.
Rudyard Kipling's wisdom is as valid today as it was when he recorded it more than a hundred years ago. Tommy and The Last of the Light Brigade relate very easily to the way the some Americans treat our soldiers and veterans.
As shown by the behavior of the Third World, Kipling's The White Man's Burden also is still one hundred percent correct, although "Western Civilization" is more descriptive than "White." In Kipling's day, the United States and Japan were the only advanced nations that were not almost 100 percent Caucasian but this has changed. Taiwan, for example, is a Euro-American democracy with almost as much freedom (according to Freedom House) as the United States.
For the purposes of this discussion, "White" is not a race but rather a culture and a set of shared values. Any country that Freedom House rates as "Free" is Euro-American or what Kipling called "White" no matter what its inhabitants' actual skin color happens to be. The same goes for any individual who shares our superior Euro-American values; he or she is "one of us" no matter what he or she looks like.
Now we will look at a few stanzas from The White Man's Burden.
The latter is certainly descriptive of the teenage boys in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and also of Palestinians. It's obvious that an independent Palestinian state would be Lord of the Flies starring adults instead of kids, complete with lynchings and femicide of women who "dishonor" themselves by being raped by their brothers or uncles. (Note: I recommend the term "femicide" instead of "honor killing" because femicide is dishonorable. Palestinians are without honor anyway, as shown by their trail of broken truces and peace agreements.)
This was certainly played out in Gaza, where well-meaning culturally-superior Euro-Americans gave the Palestinians greenhouses in which to grow food for themselves and for exports. The Palestinians looted and destroyed the greenhouses within hours. They also burned down synagogues that could have been converted into houses, schools, hospitals, or even mosques. Iraqi terrorists, meanwhile, kidnap and murder foreign aid workers who are trying to make life better for the Iraqi people.
Some people curse Western civilization for destroying native cultures that included quaint medieval practices like burning widows alive (suttee), ritual murder by followers of the goddess Kali (thuggee), the slave trade, female genital mutilation, stoning women to death for adultery, cutting off people's hands, and so on.
In conclusion, it is time to stop apologizing for our superior Euro-American culture and time to stop recognizing Third World dirt cultures and trash cultures as our equals. If anyone squeals that we are "racist," our reply should be that Palestinians are homo sapiens by birth but subhuman by behavior and choice.
Posted by Bill Levinson at December 10, 2005 01:12 PM