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   [Date]: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:02:45 +0200
   [From]: Hans Braumueller <braumueller@vossnet.de>
     [To]: "Cultural Exchange via Internet" <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: genocide 12 october 1492

The second way of interpreting the text is more "correct" in the sense that the
European culture was in fact unknown in America before Columbus arrival.
But as it's well known, Columbus and the people who went to the continent
after him were not interested in learning to know the cultures they met but
forcing them (in the most brutal way)into their own culture, the European.

Yes and the native people from the americas were unknown in Europe. The
catholic church have need more than 100 years that indigenous were not
animals but human beings. Forcing them is a very poetic interpretation of
genocide and colonialism. For the europeans may be the "Day of the Race" or
the "Encounter". In 1992 many of us were engaged in the "5oo years of
resistance" campaign all over the Americas.

Greetings

Hans Braumueller
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