What a shame.

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For what it's worth, given the size of the storm and the vast area affected, I don't think there has been very much looting at all. We are, after all, talking about millions of people and hundreds of cities - including several quite large metro areas.
 
Bonsai Nut said:
For what it's worth, given the size of the storm and the vast area affected, I don't think there has been very much looting at all. We are, after all, talking about millions of people and hundreds of cities - including several quite large metro areas.
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THANK YOU!:confused::cool::cool::cool: You would think folks were ransacking the entire city!
 
@AlainK ,

like I suggested, come and take a looksee.

Indians on this side are known as hard workers, and usually do well in school.
As I said, play the fool in school and you end up poor.
It is that simple.

Indians of Hindu extraction now make up 45 % of our population, and the Indians of Muslim extraction are down
to 4 % from 6% about 20 years ago.

Neighbours are mixed, and those I know well are just friendly, helpful folk.

You need to understand Trinidad is mostly immigrants looking for a better life, and not really wanting to work
for it, hence the second move to continental North America.
Normally, after years of struggling in North America, they are too embarrassed to come home.
Those of us that fight the good fight, end up with land and homes.
They end up in apartments renting.

As slaves went, ask the Nigerian tribes that captured rivals and sold them to the Portuguese, so
their land could be had.
Europeans get sick in Tropical humid zones. Need air-conditioners.
Good Day
Anthony
 
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Consider Boeing versus Airbus.
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This is an interesting example.

Apart from "who owns what", I wonder what part of the market each company got from bribery, or supporting totalitarian states: just read an article about how the French weapon industry made huge profits from selling weapons to South africa at the time of apartheid, when our successive governments denounced the racist policy of SA.

These were democratically elected governments (I mean "ours", including "yours" for those who have a modicum of honesty) in democratic societies.

But "business is business", isn't it?...
 
Anthony said:
As slaves went, (...)
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I (partly) understand your point of view.

What I wanted to point out is that there's a big difference between people who chose to settle somewhere and those who were brought there against their will.

That those who settled in a place and had kept a language, a culture, and binding values, are obviously much better "integrated"even after generations, even when they have lost their native language.

But those who have been deprived of their culture, their language, who were treated like animals, their "offsprings" being sold like cattle from an early age, without knowing their mother of father, without a name, those ones lived a trauma from which it is much more difficult to overcome than just being a poor immigrant.

And this trauma has lived on for generations.

The Mexicans, the chicanos, the latinos, have "Our Lady of Guadalupe", the Indian, maybe "Ganesh", or another identifying myth, but the "Nigerian tribes" that sold slaves to the Portugese sold Nigerians: how many black people speak the langauage they used to speak, how many know anything about their past, their culture, their community?

What's more, they're black: don't be naïve. In some places, the darker the colour, the worse it is.

"That yellow woman" (A Lesson Before Dying) : racism is universal.

As I said many times before, I'm no believer.

One of the main reasons is that I lost faith when I realised that religions exclude people, except when they give up their identity. Go to hell - but I'll pray for you. I. Not you. Right from the start, people are considered as objects that must be modified to fit in "our" world.

Unfortunately, racism and bigotry seem to gain momentum these days.

Where is Saint-Germain des Prés when people like them would find a plmace where they didn't have to steal to be themselves?...

And how the whole would have lost essential landmarks in "culture" if "Old Europe" hadn't welcomed them as equals...

 
You know @AlainK ,

we had an attempted coup in the 1990's. A tall policeman got kicked in the head, and became a Muslim.
Called himself, Abu Baker.

The government was under a prime minister from Tobago, ANR Robinson.
He had recently banned the importation of Apples and Grapes.
Too much money wasted on silly imports.

Well old Abu, decided that a negro government, should not rule and be headed by a negro prime minister
from Tobago.

Long story short folk died, the UK and US came in off-shore in boats, Abu, gave up went to court and
got money for his sadness.

Not bad for Nigerians, missing their motherland.
Best part, the whole group was offered free tickets to Nigeria.
Not one wanted to go ------------ Trinidad is much, much nicer than Nigeria.

Then he tried to buy into an expensive residential [ court awarded money ], the residents bought the land
to keep him away.
Mosque loaded with hidden weapons.
Many of the residents were negro by the way.
His son became a lawyer and tried politics, long memories, no doing.

Gave weapons as he ran the coup to Lavantille, original squatted zone for freed slaves.
They raided the shops of Port of Spain, no interest in coup.
Lavantille, now a crook heaven, filled with left behind small islander children as daddy went to North America.
They don't even look like us.

Sorry, you lost your faith.
I was raised with the idea, that God helps those that help themselves.
So I look for no favours.

Lastly, the education bit goes like this.

The idea used to be O and A levels, [ exams corrected by Oxford and Cambridge or London ]
If you leave school at 14, choices are ditch digger, seller in a shop, postman, taxi driver, truck driver.
O' levels [ 14 to 16 years old ] with A's or Distinctions, bank, government offices, privately dry goods store ...........
A' levels [ 15 to 16 years old ] Bank manager, Business head or university student.
All free.

Up to A' levels, land purchasing is difficult or unattainable [ unless you get the bank special 1% loan for employees.]

So it's a Government house [ projects / east end / scheme house ] neighbour about 15 feet away from you.
Pass gas and who hears ---------- as we say.

Play the fool in school and life is dark. Do the school to University and the world is yours.
Buy land, build house .................
Nice chatting with you. [ No sarcasm ]
Good Day
Anthony
 
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