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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14922)	5/29/2002 5:32:44 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

How ironic, Len Grasso : You keep posting about the "Jewish Holocaust resgistered term, an industry that spits few hundred stories a year, etc". Why only a few hundred ? With your constant posts about it, you should write a few THOUSAND times a year!

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14922)	5/30/2002 5:48:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

I just stumbled on the following paper about "Domestic Colonialism" and so, I realized that when I coined the expression "Home Colonialism", I merely reinvented the wheel.... Blauner's wheel, that is. Here's how Blauner's notion of "Internal Colonialism" nicely fits present-day Europe: Domestic Colonialism The domestic colonial model is a form of unequal institutionalized contact and resembles a master-servant, paternalistic relationship. Blauner labeled this model internal or domestic colonialism with four components: 1) The racial group's forced, involuntary entry into the country; [North African/Turkish guest-workers were lured into Europe in the 1950s and 1960s by European big business] 2) the impact of the interaction is much more dramatic than the slower and perhaps more natural processes of acculturation; 3) colonization involves a relationship by which members of the colonized group tend to be administered by representatives of the dominant power. 4) With racism, one group is seen as inferior and is exploited, controlled, and oppressed. It is also important to note that the initial contact of the groups was between inferiors and superiors. Blauner also underscored the importance of control and ownership of the ghetto by Western European groups. It is usually less than one generation before these white ethnic groups controlled their own buildings, commercial stores, and other enterprises. Eastern European groups have also followed this pattern. African/Muslim segregated communities have always been controlled from the outside, and political, economic, and administrative decisions have been taken out of their hands. One significant effect of this kind of home colonialism is to weaken the will of the colonized in resisting oppression. Blauner notes that the language, religion, family structures of African were almost totally obliterated when brought into the US. The internal colonialism model is derived from an analysis of European external colonialism. In many African and Asian countries power passed on to white colonists and settlers, who now run the show under local control. Hechter used the internal colonialism model which seems to provide a more adequate explanation of the persistence of ethnic identities and loyalties than do other explanations. Glazer admits that racial minorities face prejudice and discrimination but states that these barriers are universal and have to be faced by all who are strangers. Glazer believes that the colonial analogy, especially as applied to the U.S. Black, is invalid. Adapted from: harlingen.tstc.edu

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14922)	5/30/2002 6:04:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: As long as Europeans can keep the screwballs like Le Pen out of office they stand a chance of building a society and economy that is not only concerned with commerce but with justice and aid to former colonies. Keeping Le Pen and Haider out of office is the easy part... The real challenge will be to keep their xenophobic agendas out of office as well! Europe's far-right leaders don't need to run the show, all they need is to exert enough pressure on mainstream politicos from the sidelines. That way, little by little, they can instil their ideas into conservative policymakers. A case in point of such a pervasion tactics happened in Belgium two months ago: non-EU immigrants' right to vote (at the municipal level) was ruled out by the government on the grounds that it might favor Flanders' far-right Vlaams Blok in the next polls... But hey, don't ask the same Belgian politicos about the Palestinian "terrorist" who's been granted asylum in Belgium -and how it'll likely be grist to the VB mill. Gus