Când mă aşez pe un gând / Thinking about thinking: November 2011

2011/11/28

Pay your debts, Europe!

I've just watched this documentary on Racism, after I read a report on a survey made by EU (Making a difference in the world: Europeans and the future of development aid). Dear (Western) Europeans stop talking about "aid", you have a huge "debt" towards a lot of people from your ex-colonies. Pay back what you stole, destroyed and killed, first of all!

Interculturalitate / Interculture

"Cladirea semana mai curand cu un castel medieval si a fost intemeiata in secolul al VI-lea, iar curand dupa aceea, cand armatele musulmane au inaintat spre vest din Peninsula Arabica, cineva a avut prevederea sa construiasca o mica moschee in curtea ei, ca sa o fereasca de incendiere sau demolare. In timpul cruciadelor a venit randul manastirii sa apere moscheea si asa a strabatut veacurile, fiecare Casa a Domnului luand-o sub aripa sa ocrotitoare pe cealalta in vreme ce armatele dusmane veneau si plecau". (Ahdaf Soueif despre o manastire din Egipt) / "The building [the monastery] was looking more like a medieval castle and it was established in the 6th century, and soon after that, when the Muslim army was on the offensive in the West coming from Arab Peninsula, somebody was very inspired and built a small mosque in its backyard, to protect the monastery from fires or demolition. During the crusades, it was the right time for the monastery to protect the mosque and in this way the building survived, each House of God protecting the other one, meanwhile the enemies were coming and going" (Ahdaf Soueif about a monastery from Egypt)