Modern civilization is overrated… it is why there are tribal societies (hunter gatherer groups) still in existence. We can argue all week or month over how great civilizations are and how evolved we are because of them, which I think is a load of garbage. Civilization does not equate to true biological evolution. We humans are still vulnerable, physically weak beings and we haven’t really changed at all for the pass 200,000 yrs ago when the first true homo sapien evolved .

Another thing I like to point out is that we humans created a make believe game called civilization; where there are governments and economics. BTW money isn’t real, but I love the game of Monopoly so I’ll play the real life version of it with the rest of you. :) Yet those from advanced civilizations call tribal societies primitive… I think they’re way ahead of us and I have huge respect for their skills and abilities to survive at ripe old age in an environment where one could easily die from being bitten by an animal overnight. Anyways at least their money can feed a whole clan of people and has real value… yes, I’m referring to the humble cow. Plus as long you raise cows you’re never bankrupted. :)

Unfortunately I grew up to this domesticated life, IE being in captivity, being in a civilization, so I don’t think I could live the way our ancestors did. I know,.. I know it’s the slave mentality talking, but those of us here watching these vids and posting comments have to be realistic about these things. We all know that those of us raised in advanced civilizations would have a difficult time surviving in the wild. Nor would some of us want to leave the familiarity of our way of life. If I was forced to choose between being free in the forests or being the slave of a advanced alien species, I think I would choose the life of being a slave to a race of superior beings. I would be more comfortable being an indoor pet than being a free person being eaten alive by bugs in the unfamiliar wilderness and have my skin burnt by the sun (I have albino skin, so sue me LOL). Some of you may disagree with my thoughts on the matter and that’s ok. You have your beliefs and I have mines. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. We’re not all perfect. I just wanted to share one of my weaknesses with you all. I was only being truthful and realistic here, and I do give out my humblest of apologizes if anything stated in my comment has offended anyone. I only wanted to share some of my thoughts on the matter to which this series of documentary has brought up.

To the up-loader of the video… thank you so much for uploading this fascinating and mind stimulating documentary. I know it has brought up more questions than answers, but that’s the many wonders of life. Can you image if there weren’t any questions to answer? I would be frightened by that because it would mean that we humans had stop using our imagination and creativity. Anyways I saved the video in my bookmark folder labeled “videos” so I may share it with other. Again, thank you so much for the video.

Get a room, you two.

Your apology is absolutely accepted and it seems to me that it is in order that I offer you mine too. You obviously said what you said in frustration over what you consider to be unfairness towards the white race. I sincerely apologize for misreading you and jumping to a conclusion too quickly and calling you a national-socialist.

It is just that I believe that any discussion about which race offered more good to the world or which one committed more atrocities is irrational (by which I certainly don’t want to say that you are irrational – reading some of your other comments clearly tells me that you are a rational and intelligent person). At different points in human history different civilizations contributed to our overall progress. Violence, regression, and other negative things that were taking place, and still are, in that process should be, not exclusively but mostly, ascribed to bl00dy ideologies and some religions, not racial belonging, in my opinion anyway. In that respect, I should add that my comment to your post was really nothing personal.

So, yes, wholeheartedly, truce it is :).

HI:)

Since I have a bit more of a level head right now let me start over. Slandorous bottom-feeders was a little harsh, and YOU are most likely not one. Please accept my sincere apology for that remark, even if you don’t accept, the apology still stands.

I get offended when people bash any race or culture, not just whites. Although everyone of them has there moments of shame, they all have done things to make the world a better place as well. I think for the most part Europeons have done a lot more to help the world than we are given credit for, and for the most part we don’t even give ourselves credit for such acts. Anyone can say anything bad they want to, and it may be true, but ONLY focusing on those aspects I believe is in very poor taste and either speaks to ones lack of education or just plain racism.

Nobody likes being called a racist, no even racist’s themselves, so when you equated me to a national socialist I took deep offense and reacted very harshly. I can tell you, that I am neither a supporter of nationalism nor socialism :) My family made great sacrifices fighting directly against that. I was disappointed that you would jump to that conclusion though, because reading your comments on here for quite sometime it’s obvious you are pretty sharp.

In the future we may not always agree on certain issues, but let’s agree to disagree in a less personal manner.

Truce? :)

Slave trade was deemed illegal in England since the 1102 Council of London convention (initially, it applied to London only).

But I actually found which was the first country to abolish slavery as such – Iceland, in 1117.

“The link you provided confirms that slavery was abolished in 1981 in Mauritania – by a presidential decree. The fact that no laws were brought in to establish the details of that decree until 2007, doesn’t really prove me wrong, does it?”

Yes, you’re right. They outlawed it in 1981. But obviously it continued until 2007 which necessitated them actually punishing it. And it still continues to this day. Whereas when the U.K. outlawed it, it presumably stopped dead . . . didn’t it?

“I implied that you misinterpreted the year of Somersett case (1772) as the year of abolishment of slavery in the British Empire as being valid for the entire empire. But at that time the slavery was outlawed only in England (I did not say Britain). By the way, if you simply check the Wikipedia and the slavery timeline, you will realize that efforts aimed at abolishing slavery were a widespread tendency that was going back & forth in the 18th & 19th centuries (& even before that).”

So exactly when did “England” abolish slavery? I thought it was 1772. If I was wrong, please correct me.

The reason I thought it was all of Britain was because England and Scotland united to become Great Britain in 1707. So, in 1772, England and Scotland were both just parts of one country, Great Britain.

“The ‘civilized’ Britain was in no way the first in history of human civilization to come up with such civilized ideas. Check the Indian emperor Ashoka (3rd century BC). For his time & general conduct of the time, he was much more progressive & certainly precedes the Brits in advanced thinking with regard to slavery.”

I’ll look into it. But Britain was the first to actually outlaw slavery, right?

“It may be easy for you to say it, but as a woman I certainly don’t appreciate the “advanced” Swiss, European, society seeing women as lesser beings not worthy of the right to choose their own destiny. To me (and you will excuse my apparently chauvinist view on this) it is a form of slavery imposed by the PHYSICALLY stronger sex over the PHYSICALLY weaker one. ”

Switzerland is an anomaly among the European cultures. Most gave women the vote in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Many Muslim countries didn’t give women the vote until only a few years ago:

1994
Kazakhstan
1997
Qatar (allowed for municipal elections in 2007)
2002
Bahrain (Bahrain did not hold elections prior to 2002)
2003
Oman
2005
Kuwait
Qatar (national elections to be set by 2013)
2006
United Arab Emirates (limited; to be expanded by 2011)

Scottish or Aboriginal, actually I’m a mix of the too. BTW, slanderous bottom feeders refers to people like you, it’s a type of personality in which all races have members. Not everyone jumps to racist conclusions, I guess that says more about you than it does me.