Archive for March 24th, 2020

24/03/2020

Civilized, Barbarians, Savages

Human Wrongs Watch

By Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service*

A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.

British scholars of the 19th century classified the peoples and races as Civilized, Barbarians and Savages, based on their respective “evolutions.” Such classification was based primarily on three factors:

  1. Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution;
  2. the Industrial Revolution in the beginning of industrial capitalism; and
  3. the Reformation of the Catholic Church, the schism from which Protestantism arose.

False premises that led to false conclusions.

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24/03/2020

White Supremacists, Yellow Peril and “Chinese Virus” Add to a Volatile Political Mix

Human Wrongs Watch

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UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 2020 (IPS)* – When US President Donald Trump repeatedly characterized the fast-spreading COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” last week, it prompted some white supremacists to resurrect an age old ethnic slur against Chinese and East Asians: the “Yellow Peril” which, in a bygone era, was touted as a xenophobic threat to the Western world.

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Credit: United Nations

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24/03/2020

Five Fun Activities to Teach Your Children about Plastic Pollution

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It can be difficult to occupy your children with exciting activities for hours on end, especially when you may also be working from home.

Here are some ideas of that you can do with your children at home to teach them about the plastic pollution problem.

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24/03/2020

Observing Elites Manipulate Our Fear: COVID-19, Propaganda and Knowledge

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*

While humans stand on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, with the prospects of now averting this remote – see ‘Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth’ – virtually everyone remains unaware of the critical nature of our plight.

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Robert J. Burrowes,

Moreover, the ongoing human death toll from the activities that are generating this crisis numbers in the many millions each year while the number of species driven to extinction is estimated at 200 per day.

In contrast, a virus that is killing a very small proportion of the minuscule number it has infected is causing panic in many countries around the world, devastating the travel and tourism industries while emptying supermarket shelves of food and that apparently most vital of commodities: toilet paper.

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