最近一个时期，美国国会的佩洛西女士在所谓“西藏问题”上有一番极为拙劣的表演。她多次别有用心地提出中国的人权问题，精心策划在国会通过涉藏反华议案， 还专门跑到印度扯着达赖的手支持“藏独”。佩洛西是美国国会众议院议长，是一个有身份、有代表性的政治人物，因此，她的表演有很深的含意。佩洛西在中国人 民面前摆出“道德权威”和“人权卫士”的样子，却让我们想起美国历史上的许多往事，想起美国在民族问题上的人权和道德纪录。最令人深思的莫过于美国对印第 安人的掠夺和屠杀。
在印第安人问题上，美国历史上有许多可耻的记载。美国人为争得土地、财富和资源，残杀、掠夺、蹂躏印第安人的行为，被一切有良知的人所唾弃。几百年过去了，美国人的一切光荣和成就都无法掩盖历史留下的耻辱。
有学者认为，早在一万多年前，印第安人的祖先就从白令海峡踏上了北美大陆。印第安人的生活虽然原始，但作为一个民族，他们是独立的。印第安人是美洲大陆的 主人。几千年的劳作奋斗，印第安人创造了独特而充满魅力的文明。从哥伦布发现新大陆开始，西班牙人、葡萄牙人，法国人和英国人闯到美洲。开始，印第安人并 没有排斥这些外来的欧洲人，印第安人不了解也不知道这些人会危及自己的生存。他们用善良、坚忍和辛勤，为美国的发展做出了贡献。一些印第安人的重要聚集地 成为今天的大城市，许多印第安人捕猎的丛林小路发展成为今天的高速公路和铁路，传自印第安人的粮食作物至今仍占美国农产品的50%以上。美国20多个州、 4个大湖的名称来自印第安人的创造，如著名的“密西西比”就是印第安语“水之父”的意思。
但是，美国人对印第安人却是恩将仇报。无论是美国建国前的几个世纪，还是美国建国后的百余年，西方占领者从没有停止欺辱弱小的印第安民族，通过战争、移 民、欺骗、屠杀等残忍和无耻的手段，用种族灭绝、种族隔离、强制同化的办法，无耻掠夺原本属于印第安人的土地和资源，为美国的发展奠定了血腥的原始积累。 美国人对印第安人的欺辱，令人无法容忍。印第安人本是美洲大陆的主人，但在上世纪20年代前，美国不给印第安人以公民权。著名的1787年宪法第一条第二 款中在各州众议员人数分配问题上规定，各州人口计算范围不包括“未被课税的印第安人”，彻底否定了印第安人的公民权。1801年，美国国会颁布新法案，规 定外侨只需在美国境内居住5年即可入籍，土生土长的印第安人应该具有的公民权却继续不被承认。1887年，美国国会通过了著名的《道斯法案》，其核心是解 散作为法律实体的印第安人部落，把部落的土地分配给成员个人，联邦政府保有25年托管权，托管期满时，把土地交给个人并授予美国公民权。这个法案似乎是为 印第安人成为美国公民创造了条件，而实际上印第安人得到的土地绝大多数在短时间内就被白人以各种卑劣手段抢走，靠土地获得公民权几乎没有可能。
Xinhua News,
I read this at Xinhua News website, i think it’s pretty true about Human Rights and Prejudice between the East and the West. The West, primarily lead by US, UK, and France always complaint about human rights violation in other countries, usually Asian, African, and Latin-Americas countries are the ones being criticized. And the prime victim of Asia is China. They like to criticize & complaint the human rights situation of China but they never think of how bad their own human rights records are, as matter of fact, none of them are much better than China.
And i found that the westerners tend to “avoid” problems they made to exist today to be discussed, they like to use the word “exception“, “special case“, “unexpected“, and “we were forced to…” when making explanation on such historic issues.
The following are some comments i wrote to a British guy, anonplanet, in Youtube,
At first i was very angry at the remarks he made on Tibetan problem. He cursed and swore badly on Chinese people, saying things like “”fxxx to hell Chink”"!
I replied to him:
stinky brit, nobody cares about you, what you say , your country, and your stupid queen anymore, your colonial era has ended far long time ago. no country in this world respects your country since after what horrible things your country did to the world in the past centuries. you have no right to say “free tibet” cause it’s your country who made today’s unfair world.
He replied:
Well, at least some people are trying to make the world a better and fairer place rather then just sitting around and complaining about the past.
I replied:
So you think it’s “the past”, and nobody should talk about history anymore? let me tell you, when your bitchy queen terribly colonized the world with force slavery, unfair trade, opium trading, conquest of Tibet & Afghanistan, killing of Amerindian, humiliating non-white, massacre of Sikhs in Amritsar, and everything just happened 50 years ago. She said nothing about human rights, nor justice, nor peace! & now suddenly you want to make the world better place!? funny…
He replied:
Britain apologised for Amritsr and that was an exceptionally terrible incident.
Otherwise, I think many places benifited from British rule giving them the English language, Common Law and Democracy.
I do not claim this justifies everything, but I doubt Hong Kong, Singapore or even Malaysia would be where they are today without the Empire.
Tibet? The Uk never sought to colonise Tibet, it was a buffer zone to protect British India from Russia. I do not deny a battle took place and 700 Tibetans died, but Britain never engaged in the systomatic oppression seen under Chinese rule of Tibet.
Iraq/Aftganistan are resource/terror wars. China does no better coddling Sudan or Iran or North Korea or Burma!!!
Who is responsible for the most misery here? At least UK/USA try to improve things in Iraq? Afghanistan
I replied:
English, Common Law and Democracy are things that you think your country has benefited others, as a colonized nation, we don’t really think we benefited much from your empire’s reign. In fact, i feel ironic to see Asian talking to another Asian in English, we should speak Asian language. English has “killed” so many minority languages in Americas. And in Malaysia, Common Law has been replaced decades ago!
Oppression on Tibetan, more specifically, Tibetan separatism! Tibetan Separatists were the ones who started the riot and arson in Lhasa on 14/3, actually, we shouldn’t care much about that since they were just burning their own homeland. What China’s doing is exactly how Britain treating IRA, I don’t see your country treating IRA with love and forgiveness anyway, so why should China?
He replied:
At least there is a peace process now and both sides are talking and there is no more violence.
That is a problem solved with dialogue. But, as long as China continues to ignore Tibetan issues uprisings and violence will continue…and probably get worse.
It is in everyones interest then to reach an accord, rather then China just saying ‘Do what we say or else….’, don’t you agree?
You can bring up the past all you want, it does not change the present.
By the way, I belive American culture and globilisation have contributed far more to the spread of English as a language then the empire.
So, you can see that they REALLY LIKE to avoid what terrifying things their country did in the past! And they like to say things that their country did were “RIGHTEOUS”!
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