Friday, January 15, 2010

Rwanda being colonized

The best country to live in during its early colonization would be Rwanda.

Discrimination has happened in Australia, South Africa, the US and Rwanda. However, in South Africa and the US slavery and relocation were common to make room for the colonists. In Australia children were stolen by the government to be raised in the colony and married to white men, until no trace of Aboriginal culture remained. In Rwanda, during its colonization, had no slavery or elimination plans. Although Hutus were treated as second class citizens, no harm would come to them as an ethnic group until the genocide, which was still years away. Hutus led lives of discrimination and hard labor, but it’s obvious this life was better than one spent watching your culture deteriorate or being a slave.

The second reason living as a Hutu is the best of the scenarios is that early on there was no real barrier between the Hutus and Tutsis. They were free to inter-marry, be friends and work alongside each other. It was only the moderate Tutsis that ever caused any problems in the early stages of Rwanda's development as a colony. Both groups were living together in one life, not seperate lives of slavery and freedom. Both these reasons explain why living as a Hutu during Rwanda's colonization is much better than living as a minority elsewhere.

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