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SocratesNot -> RE: No Male dominatrices? (6/15/2010 4:02:19 AM)
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I will agree that women in countries such as Bosnia are culturally conditioned not to seek out sex. After all, that's a country in which a man can get off free because "she was asking for it in her provocative clothing" is considered a valid rape defense.
How SNot can extrapolate that to the rest of the world I don't know. Or don't they get American television there? Because it is different here and in Western Europe and Canada.
If you think that we are living in jungle or that we are some sort of uncivilized barbarians you are very wrong and it just shows your prejudices.
BTW, treatment of women in Bosnia is not different than treatment of women in US, Canada or Western Europe.
Culturally, we belong to the same civilization - now I am talking about Republika Srpska - this is the Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which I live - we are Serbs by ethnicity and Christians by religion - we are very westernized and we are part of Western civilization. We have over 60 channels on Cable TV, including CNN, Discovery, National Geographic, BBC, Rai Uno, RTL, MTV, Euro Sport, etc. We dress like people in Western Europe and we have similar way of life. Yes, we have worse economic standard, but this is the only difference. Women are very emancipated here and traditional patriarchy is not very prominent.
And also, unlike in US, we never kept people in slavery and we never committed large scale genocide.
Yes, in Srebrenica, there was a genocide. Over 8000 people died.
But this was a single incident.
What about systematic long-term genocide and killing of Native Americans?
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Authors such as the Holocaust expert David Cesarani have argued that the government and policies of the United States of America against certain indigenous peoples constituted genocide. Cesarani states that "in terms of the sheer numbers killed, the Native American Genocide exceeds that of the Holocaust".[24] He quotes David E. Stannard, author of American Holocaust,[25] who speaks of the "genocidal and racist horrors against the indigenous peoples that have been and are being perpetrated by many nations in the Western Hemisphere, including the United States ..."[26] Michno estimates 21,586 dead, wounded, and captured civilians and soldiers for the period of 1850–1890 alone.[27] In God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries, Grenke quotes Chalk and Jonassohn with regards to the Cherokee Trail of Tears that "an act like the Cherokee deportation would almost certainly be considered an act of genocide today".[28] The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the Trail of Tears. About 17,000 Cherokees — along with approximately 2,000 black slaves owned by Cherokees — were removed from their homes.[29] The number of people who died as a result of the Trail of Tears has been variously estimated. American doctor and missionary Elizur Butler, who made the journey with one party, estimated 4,000 deaths.[30] For the slaughter of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, see Parsley Massacre.
What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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