Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
Mar 20th 2015, 11:38 pm
#31
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Re: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something
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Mar 21st 2015, 6:53 am
#32
**** it we'll do it live
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Re: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
Sort of amazing though isn't it?
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something.
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something
.Give it another 10-20 thousand years and who knows where we will be. Maybe homo sapiens from Mars will detest those from Earth
