Sukarno Quotes
The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.
Sukarno. Sukarno: An Autobiography. As told to Cindy Adams, Bobbs-Merrill, 1965, p. 84.
This was a common view of Southern leaders. Society had to be monolithic culturally. In the North, the constant immigration from the world over made pluralism much more normative. However, the vast majority of the North opposed slavery and believed that slavery and free labor could not coexist. So the Southern argument on that point was turned on them, and the monolithic views of the South has constantly eroded and become more tolerant and pluralistic and by the 21st century, there were parts of the South that were more tolerant and pluralistic than some parts of the North. Change, reform and liberalism was slow to take hold but it was inexorable.
Disraeli was the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
He goes on to observe that the German’s are the most hated of the Europeans in large part because they mainly trade in rotgut liquor much of it poisoned which has a devastating effect on the Africans. (The English, in contrast had to have all alcohol inspected in London for safety, before it could leave for Africa.) The “kings” to which the Bishop referred are the rural tribal kings of whom there were more than a few. It is not as if there were a unified monarchy. Another interesting observation is that although Turner was one of Americas leading Blacks, he used the term frequently, but never capitalized it.
Belgium is comprised of an amalgam of two separate nations and cultures, Walonia and Flanders. They spoke a different language and had very different economies and world views. Destree was distressed that few people saw themselves as Belgians—They were either Flemish or Waloons. There was at the time no concept of a nation even though there was a king and the rest of the world recognized one country.
The English at the time ( and some even today) did not consider England part of Europe.
The Hapsburg Empire involved Austria, Hungary as the major cultures and then dozens more including Roman Catholics, several Eastern Orthodox from different cultures, Protestants of various sects, Jews, Muslims all speaking many different languages. The Republicans had the Tea Party, Christian Evangelicals, economic conservatives, cultural liberals, gays, anti gays, small businesses and huge corporations.
What makes the situation even more complicated is that most of the land of the Middle East has been governed by a succession of Empires who may have drawn the lines differently from the previous governing dynasty. For example, the land that is Israel today, has been governed by Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Romans, various Arab dynasties, Turkey, England, and the Jews again. Turkey governed it for the longest period.
The Russians had invaded Afghanistan and, like the earlier invaders who had also failed, they did not understand the people or their culture. (See {634659}). They tried to impose a centralized Communist government, not realizing that the Afghanistan people were not experienced with any kind of central government. There was some tribal structure but that was mostly a traditional consensus process. Most Afghan men were the “kings” of their own families and did not respond to any other governance though they can be nfluenced by tribal leaders, warlords, and imams.
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