Two days ago I made fun of the Government of Israel's Program to Improve Marital Relations in the Ethiopian community. Today, the program was - partially - rejected. Did I do it?
I'll let that question open. The fact is that the Ministry of Immigration rejected the materials prepared for the program and will not make use of them. There is no need for explanations since the bitter rivalry among the Ministries is sufficient cause for rejecting each other's programs. Unnecesarily, they did provide an explanation: the program intends to remake Third World adults into Western middle class persons, which is the wrong approach. One should never take a person and erase its past, its culture and its traditions and refill its head, now empty, with foreign Western ideas. The correct approach is TO RESPECT and to build on on those rooted African traditions.
Like wife-killing.
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I am reminded of the British experience in India in the 19th century (the British have been dealing w/ 3rd world people for a long time). They were told that suttee (wife burning) was an old Indian custom. The British responded that hanging people who participated in wife burning was an old British custom. The Indians could keep their custom but the British would keep theirs as well.
K
Haha. That's good.
Are They Reading This Blog?
The Economist reads your blog.
The Economist has found racial disparity in Brazil. They want a remedy.
Affirming a divide
Black Brazilians are much worse off than they should be. But what is the best way to remedy that?
http://www.economist.com/node/21543494
The Brazilian racial equality secretariat is black.
http://www.economist.com/node/21543494
Brazilians have long argued that blacks are poor only because they are at the bottom of the social pyramid—in other words, that society is stratified by class, not race. But a growing number disagree. These “clamorous” differences can only be explained by racism, according to Mário Theodoro of the federal government’s secretariat for racial equality. In a passionate and sometimes angry debate, black Brazilian activists insist that slavery’s legacy of injustice and inequality can only be reversed by affirmative-action policies, of the kind found in the United States.
Their opponents argue that the history of race relations in Brazil is very different, and that such policies risk creating new racial problems. Unlike in the United States, slavery in Brazil never meant segregation. Mixing was the norm, and Brazil had many more free blacks. The result is a spectrum of skin colour rather than a dichotomy.
White people rule Brazil. They need government intervention.
http://www.economist.com/node/21543494
For black activists, the next target is the labour market. “As a black man, when I go for a job I start from a disadvantage,” says Mr Theodoro. He notes that the United States, which is only 12% black, has a black president and numerous black politicians and millionaires. In Brazil, in contrast, “we have nobody”. That is not quite true: apart from footballers and singers, Brazil has a black supreme-court justice (appointed by Lula) and senior military and police officers. But they are exceptional. Only one of the 38 members of Ms Rousseff’s cabinet is black (though ten are women). Stand outside the adjacent headquarters of Petrobras, the state oil company, and the National Development Bank in Rio at lunchtime, and “all the managers are white and the cleaners are black,” says Frei David.
Brasil has no racial problems nor racial legislation. Rich blacks are white, poor whites ae black.
When I was in Brazil, it immediately became clear to me when I was in German-settled area; the sidewalks were spotless, the grass was manicured and nothing was out of place, public or private. Not necessarily my ideal of heaven, but very noticeable.
I can't say the same for the rest of the country.
Anon.
I like the Geranium flower pots in the windows of the German houses, the nice gardens, the good mechanic shops.
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