Starting in the 15th Century, Colonialism is evident, thanks to Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, encouraging everyone in Europe either to be conquistadors or pirates, which encourages every fiction in the world to be based from those themes.
I would not limit those themes in just sea warfare but also in land, namely some Eurasian wars of conquest by any empire that time. But what effect would it be if colonialism on a larger scale would persist even here in the 21st century? Of course, America wouldn't have existed as we know today, Serbia is still making an uprising against the Turks(of course!), France woulf still have Quebec, Spain would not have Mexico or Philippines independent, Britain would stil dominate the world map and uh, China, Russia and Japan would remain a moderate power.
Of course, you will colonize a land baceause of its geopolitical strategic interest like food, oil, population transfer, military stations and others. Without these factors, you will just colonize a land for nothing.
There are other non economical factors like spreading religion, Spain, France and Britain did it while Russia was on a smale scale.
With these explanations, now people would see why there is a term called colonization.
Should criminals be in charge of correcting the wrong they inflicted?
ReplyDeletePuerto Ricans vote in elections every 4 years at an 80% level of participation. Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States (US) government for the past 116 years. If the US government has the final say in what happens in Puerto Rico, what is the purpose of these elections? The purpose is to fool the world that Puerto Rico is a democracy.
The United Nations (UN) declared colonialism a crime against humanity in 1960. The UN has asked the US government 33 times to decolonize Puerto Rico immediately. The US government has refused. It says that Puerto Rico’s political relationship with the United States is none of the UN’s business. The US says that it is a domestic affair.
To appear that the US government wants to decolonize Puerto Rico, it promotes the use of plebiscites to determine what Puerto Ricans want. Doesn’t that sounds innocent and democratic? So what’s the problem?
To begin with, the international community already rendered its verdict and determined that colonialism is illegal. So to have a political status option in a plebiscite that favors maintaining Puerto Rico a colony of the United States is not permitted. To have a political status option of Puerto Rico becoming a state of the United States is also not permitted under international law. The problem goes back to the beginning of this article. In order to have free elections, the country must be free. So before these elections and plebiscite could be valid, Puerto Rico would have to first be an independent nation.
What people must realize is that Puerto Rico is a colony of the US because the US government wants it that way. That is why it has used terrorism to keep it that way. That is why it refuses to release the Puerto Rican political prisoner of 33 years Oscar López Rivera. That is also why it is ridiculous to believe that decolonization is a US internal matter in which the UN has no jurisdiction over. If we allow the US government to decolonize Puerto Rico, she will remain a colony of the United States forever!
José M López Sierra
www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com