28 Friday Oct 2016
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deny non-whites historical memory of who’re your enemies & historical solutions, language, family/social structure (extended family & elder system), child rearing practices (make spanking illegal)…
28 Friday Oct 2016
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deny history, language, family/social structure (extended family, elder system), child rearing practices (spanking’s illegal)…
28 Friday Oct 2016
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Cultural Genocide Quiz: Most famous #bookburning? May 10, 1933 in the German Nazi regime.
Book burning refers to the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. … Book burning has a long and dark history; and perhaps the most famous of these events, the burning of books under the Nazi regime on May 10, 1933, had a precedent in nineteenth century Germany.
In 1933, Nazi German authorities strove to synchronize professional and cultural organizations with Nazi ideology and policy (Gleichschaltung). In keeping with this endeavor, Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, began an effort to bring German arts and culture in line with Nazi goals.
28 Friday Oct 2016
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Cultural Genocide Quiz: Why ban #ChinuaAchebe’s #ThingsFallApart? To erase the historical memory needed 2 recognize enemies & problem solve
20 Thursday Oct 2016
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Business is booming. Nichols has brought awareness to the employees of six cabinet departments, three branches of the armed services, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the FBI; the Goddard Space Center, the Naval Air Warfare Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NASA; the Office of Personnel Management, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Social Security Administration. He has enlightened city and county governments, whole school systems, various state government departments, labor unions, several prestigious law firms, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. His clients include “Fortune 500 Corporations, foreign governments, parastatals, associations, health and mental health systems,” and he has been a consultant to offices of “The British Commonwealth of Nations” and “organizations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Latin America…Singapore, Malaysia, and China.” He has a very long list of academic clients, and he was a centerpiece of Johns Hopkins’ 1999 freshman orientation.
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17 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in #culture, Political/Economics, war
13 Thursday Oct 2016
Posted in #culture, Education, Relationships & Sex, war
Chinua Achebe wrote about it in a 1958 African story that describes how things changed to the detriment of the Africans just as gentrification works to the detriment of non-whites today. As Richard Brookshire learned recently when ‘the threat of involving the New York Police Department for something that could have been solved with a neighborly knock on the door’. http://wapo.st/2dytZun
And, Colin Turnbull wrote about it in a true account, Human Cycles. Admission, this may not be the right book per memory, I read it many years ago. If I find it is, I’ll make a correction but, it really is worth reading because it does a good comparison of the difference between how Africans vs whites live.
His account is almost the exact same as that described by Achebe.
When white people come, everything changes in the village of the 1800’s (and before) as gentrification does to communities of color. In one of the poorest wards of Washington, DC, a park on the Anacostia River where Blacks have been recreating all day until wee hours of the morning, enjoying the moon light by the river is now closed at dark…since whites (women) started jogging there. And, the early closure is police enforced. In that same park, playing an ‘organized’ sport, baseball, by whites is considered a more legitimate activity than Blacks picnicing or just sitting enjoying the cool relaxing river scene. In that same poor DC ward, over policing is regular resulting in more parking and j-walking tickets and arrest for minor traffic violations. Not to mention whites who seem to have a different dress code than Blacks, even poor Blacks.
Black men, and surely not older Black men just don’t go to the Safeway like this…even, the poorest of Black men are more respectful.
When whites come, as colonizers or gentrifiers, things fall apart in every way, even, morally,
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
What does Nichols believe? He believes that culture is genetically determined, and that blacks, Hispanics, and descendants of non-Jewish Middle-Eastern tribes place their “highest value” on “interpersonal relationships.” In Africa, women are the equal of men. Whites were altered permanently by the Ice Age. They value objects highly, not people. That is why white men commit suicide so frequently when they are downsized.
Nichols calls his science of value systems “axiology,” and he believes that if managers and administrators understand these cultural differences, they can manage more effectively, understanding why, according to him, blacks attach no importance to being on time, while whites are compulsive about it. Whites are logical; blacks are intuitive and empathetic. Whites are frigid; blacks are warm and spontaneous. Whites are relentlessly acquisitive; nonwhites are in harmony with nature. White engineers, for example, care about their part of something; Asian engineers, managers should know, care about the whole. Whites are linear; nonwhites have a spiral conception of time. Nichols has a handout that he frequently uses. Whites, it explains, “know through counting and measuring”; Native Americans learn through “oneness”; Hispanics and Arabs “know through symbolic and imagery [sic]”; Asians “know through striving toward the transcendence [sic].”
White behavior, feelings, and actions are anti-social whereas non-white behavior, feelings, and actions are more humane…Ubuntu.
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
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#CheikhAntaDiop, #TheCulturalUnityOfBlackAfricaTheDomainsOfPatriarchyAndOfMatriarchyInClassiclaAntiquity
Cheikh Anta Diop defined the difference between matriarchy and patriarchy in his original doctoral thesis presented at the Sorbonne in 1954; published in The Cultural Unity of Black Africa:The Domains of Patriarachy and of Matriarchy In Classical Antiquity in 1959.
It differentiates Southern Black/African Matriarchal culture from Northern white male Patriarachal culture.
DIOP’S TWO CRADLE THEORY
FROM “THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION” AND “CULTURAL UNITY”
CHARACTERISTIS OF THE TWO CRADLES
(Determined by Environment after a separation during the Ice Age.)
Southern Cradle-Egyptian Model
- Abundance of vital resources.
- Sedentary-agricultural.
- Gentle, idealistic, peaceful nature with a spirit of justice.
- Matriarchal family.
- Emancipation of women in domestic life.
- Territorial state.
- Xenophilia.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Social collectivism.
- Material solidarity of right for individual which makes moral or material misery unknown.
- Idea of peace, justice, goodness and optimism.
- Literature emphasizes novel tales, fables and comedy.
Northern Cradle-Greek Model
- Bareness of resources.
- Nomadic-hunting (piracy)
- Ferocious, warlike nature with spirit of survival.
- Patriarchal family.
- Debasement / enslavement of women.
- City state (fort)
- Xenophobia.
- Parochialism.
- Individualism.
- Moral solitude.
- Disgust for existence, pessimism.
- Literature favors tragedy.
Source: http://www.jalumi.com/class/csu/Two_Cradle_Theory.htm
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in #culture, Education, History, Political/Economics
