Let’s talk about the modern challenges of human right!
So, Where Do We Start?
As I mentioned in my introduction, there are communities, religious groups, ethnic minorities, and indeed human right whole nations who are strangers or oppressed in their own land.
Many other peoples retain their homes in their own lands but when it comes to human rights, they have no say in how they wish to manage or sustain their way of life or even how their natural resources are managed or sold.
I have said here that I am a resident of Britain and that I share in the good and the bad that my fore fathers chose to take to or develop within foreign lands. Britain is just one of history’s bigger invaders.
Many European nations carved empires out of every corner of the earth. Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Greece, Turkey, need I go on?
The USA, China, Japan and many more nations have built their own empires in the world, and even where no invasion or threats were involved, the influence of a greater power has changed the receiver’s homes and lifestyles in ways that the residents never envisaged.
Empires like the Persian, Roman, Greek, Ottoman and early Chinese examples didn’t always need to walk or fight their way in.
Bloodshed is never acceptable except in the cause of defending yourself and in some people’s hearts never acceptable.
One of hardest things to understand is that a way of life that once was simple, tough and full of spiritual peace is unlikely to ever return because the very place in which the way of life took place has changed beyond return.
Let us take an example, one which, known worldwide through stories and films forms part of the history of one of the world’s greatest nations. The Native North American Indian.
A proud nation of people who had their own stories of conquest, of spiritual connection to their lands, of their own feuds or pacts but largely a simple living reliant upon good husbandry and understanding of their local climate and soil.
My aim here is to avoid discussing the past. I do not expect to get the same answers from all of the people.
Do Native North American Indian’s want a full return to former lives upon the plains? Could they maintain their way of life alongside modern living.
Would they be able to reject mobile phones and TV, processed foods and Coca Cola, modern education and clothes?
Tell me what you think!
