racism prince?
Disclaimer: This criticism is only in response to the strange statements mentioned in the following tweet link.
I once learned from history books that U.K. adopted a constitutional monarchy: the policy of this country (the government, actually) does not completely depend on the king or queen, but is produced by parliament. Therefore, members of the British royal family, especially the kings or queens, rarely express their own (personal) opinions on political issues, in order to avoid some unnecessary contradictions.
So I would be very shocked by this tweet: https://twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1501637351273074690
According to several media reports, during a visit to the semi-official Ukrainian agency in the UK, Prince William said in his speech, “The British see war scenes more often in places like Asia and Africa, but it still feels out of place to have them in Europe.”
From the Chinese, the problem of Prince William's speech does not seem obvious, but the English media repeatedly stressed that his wording was “alien to see”, in which “alien” has multiple meanings such as “alien, exotic”, meaning “strange, like looking at aliens”, not only frivolous, but also implies a deeper meaning of “war is frequent in Asia and Africa, we are a civilized society in Europe and should not be the same as Asia and Africa”.
It seems like that he was surprised by the war in Europe, and thought that it was “normal” for similar incidents to happen in Africa or Asia, “outside Europe”.
This was a very horrible comment. Europeans have rampaged across the continent, pillaging communities, raping women, enslaving humans, colonizing for power, stealing resources, and sparking the ongoing destruction that Europe still plagues Africa with today. Prince William should pursue this topic to see how much of the violence he sees in the world today is the result of poverty, deprivation and corruption caused by European colonization.
I can't help to wonder... if the British colonial history (of course, mostly outside Europe) had ever mentioned in U.K. schools' history class? Or, at least, about World War I, or World War II? Considering that this man may not have to attend the “normal” school term by virtue of his family, maybe his tutors had never tell him about those bloody European colonial rule outside Europe. But that does not justify his indifference to those painful suffering outside Europe. Some painful events that are taking place in Asia and Africa over a long period of time are precisely the ill-effects of previous European foreign colonial domination.
In the last 2 centuries, Europe has experienced some of the bloodiest conflicts – the Balkans, Yugoslavia, Germany and Kosovo. So when we look at the wars and deaths in Africa and Asia, it should not be descriped as “alien”.
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