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Posting on some of the General Topics got me to thinking about historical inaccuracies. For example, the common belief that American-Indians starting scalping. This was actually a common European practice that the colonist brought over to America. This was then further used as the white settlers starting taking lands out west. They paid bounty hunters to "clear" out the land & paid for each Indian scalp they brought back. The Indians didn't understand why the bounty hunters were doing this to thier people, so they started scalping back as they tried fighting off the white settlers and bounty hunters. Somehow, this got turned around as Indians having started it.
Fast forward to modern times. European and some American companies are dumping toxic waste off both African coasts but paticularly off of the east side hoping no one will notice. More specifically off the coast of Somalia. This of course killed the fishing trade so the Somali fisherman started trying to attack these boats that were dumping toxic waste in thier waters. The fisherman started arming themselves & then the Somali warlords got in involved (as the fisherman were buying arms from them) & it basically morphed into what we hear & read about now.
Learn to look past what you see & hear in the news. There is always waaaaay more than get's reported and what's written about in historical texts.
Fast forward to modern times. European and some American companies are dumping toxic waste off both African coasts but paticularly off of the east side hoping no one will notice. More specifically off the coast of Somalia. This of course killed the fishing trade so the Somali fisherman started trying to attack these boats that were dumping toxic waste in thier waters. The fisherman started arming themselves & then the Somali warlords got in involved (as the fisherman were buying arms from them) & it basically morphed into what we hear & read about now.
Learn to look past what you see & hear in the news. There is always waaaaay more than get's reported and what's written about in historical texts.