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had walked no more than five minutes when I heard the sound of crashing glass. I kept walking. But after another bottle landed dangerously close to me I looked up and saw the outline of a man. He was shouting at me. I started to say something but thought better of it and continued to walk. Two dozen men, mostly with shaved heads and dressed in black trousers and white tee shirts, come out of a nearby doorway. I tried to continue down the street but realized it was a dead end. As the men followed me they shouted racial obscenities (the n-word has found its way across the Atlantic), threw things at me, and shoved me. I finally was cornered and forced to fight my way through them. After I scaled a wall and escaped a few of the drunken skinheads tried unsuccessfully to follow me. When one appeared almost to be on the verge of climbing the wall, I picked up a slab of concrete, stood on a cement block, and took out all my frustrations of the trip thus far on the neo-nazi’s exposed hands.
When I wiped the perspiration from the back of my head, I realized then it was not sweat but blood. Some English-speaking students called the American embassy and the local U.S. Mission sent a car for me and found a doctor to sew up the back of my head. The rookie FSO gave me a lecture on how Slovakia was not safe at night for anyone, how xenophobia is rampant because the nation’s dismal economy, and how the Mafia runs most of the nightclubs in the city.
The rest of my experiences in Eastern Europe (Prague, Budapest, Krakow, and Gdansk) were much less violent, and the only other skinheads I saw were in Prague and Gdansk. (An aside: with each dollar bill that you either have, or are thought to have, the level of discrimination decreases accordingly.)
Can we into white guilt nao? This is from a new article from The Times.
>You could enter from next-door Paraguay, for instance, where Spanish settlers intermarried with the native Guarani inhabitants to produce a thoroughly mixed-race nation whose second language is Guarani. Or you could arrive from Bolivia, where some 60 per cent of the population are indigenous, millions of them pretty much full-blooded, and whose president is himself of Aymara Indian stock. In Peru, too, a huge indigenous population plays a central part in the country's rural and urban economy, and cultural life.
>But there's something ghostly about Argentina. The overwhelming majority of the population are white, or almost white. Ghostly in another sense too, because sometimes in the street you'll spot a distinctively bridged nose, unusual cheekbones or the impenetrably dark eyes that betray a dash of native blood. Perhaps this is a migrant from Bolivia, or a Mapuche Indian from Chile; or perhaps - like a ghost walking among his assassins, like a race within a race - this is a death's-head reminder, a throwback: the hint of a descent from a people who have been wiped from history.
>Because "wiped from history" is the only phrase for it. The European settlers who now populate Argentina - Italian, Spanish, German, Welsh - are the relatively recent inheritors of colonisers who quite simply exterminated the peoples whose land this was.
Due to outbreak of autism in the ruling circles of our nations, it's suddenly decided that you will be annexed by one of the following countries: A) Germany B) Russia C) UK D) China E) Japan F) USA G) France H) Spain I) Poland J) Sweden Citizens at least have the right to vote, so who will you vote? Glorious Polan of course. Say why, I am to lazy to explain.
