Hawaiian Proverb Quotes
Those above are going down, those below are going up.
Hawaiian Proverb
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In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. Corruption has plagued China for millennia. As can be seen by this quotation, Mao thought that a “people’s revolution” would end corruption and despite capital punishment for corruption under the Communist government, corruption still thrived. By the 21st century corruption was common among local Communist Party Officials despite national party and government attempts to obliterate it.
The South at the time had a virtual caste system with a few families in each area controlling and leading. Many Unionists from the argued that the lower and middle class whites had to be given more power and education about their rights. Of course the controlling families had a strong vested interest to see that Reconstruction failed and the “Yankees” were hated. Anti-Negro racism was just a part of the motivation. Maintaining the elite families power of the pre-war political culture was also critical. The Northern Reconstuctionists were therefore twice dangerous.
Although technically illegal, India has a caste system where Brahmins are on the top and the “untouchables” are at the bottom. Discrimination exists throughout society except in some government programs.
