I have split the offtopic discussion about ETA.
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All colonial powers committed serious crimes against indigenous peoples. No European colonizer was any better or worse than the other.
However, it may well be that, overall, disease claimed more native lives in the New World than European arms.
I was referring to a message you posted some time ago in a thread about the Crusades.
This is the thread: http://www.eupedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18292
And this is the message:
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/showpost.php?p=254083&postcount=23
Regards.
Basque tapas restaurant (if that counts as Spanish ).
Perhaps you are talking more about the reputation of quality.Spanish cheeses, not so good though.
Of course that is counted as Spanish.
By the way how fickle you are, do you think the world spins just for you?
It was a joke, because many Basques don't feel Spanish.
You can not generalize, not all Basques think alike, unfortunately the regionalist nazionale are a scourge to Spain and the Basque terrorism involves thousands of murders, mutilations and shattered lives, now if you can joke, is free to do.
It was a joke, because many Basques don't feel Spanish.
You can not generalize, not all Basques think alike, unfortunately the regionalist nazionale are a scourge to Spain and the Basque terrorism involves thousands of murders, mutilations and shattered lives, now if you can joke, is free to do.
You forget about the terrorism brought to Spain by generalissimo Franco.
And the Catholic Church that supported that dictator.
Is racism allowed in this forum ? And this guy calls others facist ?this thread is useless in my opinion. spaniards are and have ever been a disgrace to human kind. the world would have been a so much better place without them.
French were known hispanophobes.The French mathematician Blaise Pascal once said "Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other side". That was in the 1600's but it didn't change much since.
Little ? More than most european countries. The fact that you are a ignorant and you don't know them doesn't mean they didn't exist :Spain contributed little to mathematics, sciences or philosophy. Look at the list of famous Spaniards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spaniards).
Spain has never been a fascist state, ignorant.reinaert is right. spaniards are just getting what they deserve for their historical ties with fascism.
Do yo really believe that ? The French were generally on very good terms with the Native Americans, traded abundantly with them and intermarried with them. There aren't known for forced conversions or massacres.
The Dutch had little foothold in the Americas, but overall their colonisation style was focused on the commercial aspects, rather than acquiring land (except for their self-centred colony in South Africa) or converting people. They were so unpreoccupied by spreading their own culture, language or convictions that Dutch language is the only colonial European language that didn't spread beyond the mother land (again, except in South Africa, but only among Dutch people, not indigenous populations). The Dutch took over Portuguese colonies along the coasts of Africa and Asia, and used Portuguese as a lingua franca (because it was already established in those ports) instead of imposing their own language. In Indonesia, the Dutch spoke Bahasa Melayu (the Malay language) for commerce, also because it was already widely used as a lingua franca in the region. They were the only ones that respected so much indigenous populations as to learn the local language rather than impose their own. That says a lot.
The British are generally regarded as the "best" colonisers though. They left the most positive feelings in their colonies to this day, and are the only one who maintained close relationships with their former colonies in the form of a Commonwealth of Nations (which includes its own sporting event, the Commonwealth Games).
As for the massacres of Native Americans in what is today the USA, it took place mostly in the 19th century (after the independence) when the young USA started to expand westward. But by that time the Amerindians had acquired guns and horses and were fighting against the Americans on a much more level field than the hapless (and hopeless) 16th-century Amerindians when the Spaniards landed.
all european kings/queens intermarriage with foreign royal houses. what spaniards did they did it by themselves. and they haven't contributed to anything postive to the world, just bullfighting, fascism and inquisition. not a heritage to be proud of. i would be ashamed if i were spaniard.
all european kings/queens intermarriage with foreign royal houses. what spaniards did they did it by themselves. and they haven't contributed to anything postive to the world, just bullfighting, fascism and inquisition. not a heritage to be proud of. i would be ashamed if i were spaniard.
all european kings/queens intermarriage with foreign royal houses. what spaniards did they did it by themselves. and they haven't contributed to anything postive to the world, just bullfighting, fascism and inquisition. not a heritage to be proud of. i would be ashamed if i were spaniard.
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