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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Cultures colliding can lead to wonderful things, a fusion that combines the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, as history tells us, these clashes tend to lead to destruction. Power imbalances are exploited, the enormous weight of one colonising culture begins a conscious erasure of what it's landed on. This global cultural desecration was carried out with gusto for most of the last century, ethnic cultures systemically being converted to a Western model: languages forgotten, traditions abandoned, rituals blown away like dust in the wind; a thousand years of culture destroyed in favour of Christianity and capitalism.
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