masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:Kusadikika wrote:I think the most powerful weapon of any nation is kichwa ngumuness. The same trait that makes Miguna annoying. A nation that has a high level of this is very difficult to conquer.
@Heri I can recommend a documentary that will give you an idea of just how difficult it was to fight the Japanese in WWII. "The War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick." It is available on Netflix. You can also read Wikipedia pages of the battles in the Pacific islands of Guadalcanal, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Any American who fought on those islands and survived to tell the tale never forgot the Japanese. The Japanese fought to the last man. Never surrendered even if he was the last one. Japanese civilians on some islands committed suicide by jumping off a cliff rather than be captured alive.
yes... Taleb calls it Minority Rule... a small but stubborn minority will always rule. For example in Kenya we all eat halal food - why? Because a small and stubborn minority stuck to their guns. The rest of us can eat halal or non halal food - they can only eat halal food. it's the same thing with Kosher. GMOs suffered because a small but stubborn group rejected them. Apparently it's also a thing with languages! Taleb has an essays about it (I read it in a book but later discovered that they are all available
online)
Hasty generalization. Why aren't the Roma ruling Europe. They are a minority and are vichwa ngumu.
Did you read the essay to understand what I was saying? Unlike the Roma - the Jews and Muslims are actually embedded in that society and people "care" what they want. It's like having a cake with Pombe for a birthday - you will look around and if 'some of your friends are muslims'... you will be sensitive to their needs as long as the cost is not too high. All your 'kafir' friends can eat non alcoholic cake but your single muslim friend who you want to come does not. So you have to want something from them and care about them... the sad fact is that no one cares about Romas... everyone keeps on saying they are not even europeans but indians.
Maybe you've forgotten, but the Jews and the Roma have many parallels in Europe.
When Salvini, for example,wants to deport the Roma to some place, is that not caring?
You can't persecute people to whom you are indifferent.