The US, China, India, the Arabs: Which do you prefer?

Jan 29, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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Would you prefer Arab or Chinese global domination over European hegemony? The Arabs, Chinese and the Indian sub-continent are unashamed worshippers of the white man’s culture? Why would you prefer Chinese international control of the world’s economy when the Chinese themselves are over-zealous emulators of American culture, American life, and things all-American?
I do not accept big countries dominating the world.  I do not accept racial superiority in international relations. But what I reject is different from the reality of the world. The reality of life on Planet Earth is that there is one superpower. It is the US. It has preponderance in world trade. Its culture is more influential among all lands in the world. Its military reach is greater than anything seen in the Roman Empire or Pax Britannica.
The United States’ nearest rival is China. The peoples of the world have to live with this reality. Small states have to accept that the US and China have gargantuan penetration in the world. There is nothing the world can do about this. It is called reality.
If asked which country, like China, Brazil, India or Russia, you would prefer to see surpass Pax-Americana, since this is likely to happen in the future, what would your preference be? I would like to stick with the US. My hope is that if there is to be one global giant in the world, I would vote for the US.
In terms of philosophy, I think the US is closer to what my country and its people believe in. I think the American people in a holistic framework are more comfortable with darker skinned people, than the Chinese, Arabs, Russians and the folks on the Indian sub-continent are.
In terms of freedom, I think American culture is more philosophically inclined to respect the dignity of the human species than any other existing civilization.
Let us look at some examples before I describe what I saw in 2013 with Arab-owned Aljazeera and Chinese state television CCTV, both of which are available in Guyana. Marxian humanism had seventy years of existence in the then USSR. The USSR and its communist nature were supposed to be superior to western civilization.
If you were twenty years in 1990 in Eastern Europe, then you were a superior human to western man and woman, because your generation was brought up on the humanity and equalitarian instincts that inhere in communism. As the nineties began, communism ended – the USSR collapsed. Shortly after the USSR split into several independent republics, racism showed its ugly inherency. If you were African or dark-skinned or brown in complexion then you saw who were more racist – white Americans or the Slavic people of Eastern Europe.
Chances are, if you are dark like me, you may more survive a late night walk in southern US than in any city in Eastern Europe, including Russia. After a visit, our famous Jan Carew wrote these words; “Moscow is not my Mecca,” and this was before the fall of communism.
Have you seen what the Indian Cricket Board has done?  It has recommended for adoption a change in the leadership structure for the ICC, the controlling body for world cricket.
There will now be two levels of leadership in the ICC with India, England and Australia having more voting rights and power than the rest of the other boards. One board one vote is done away with. Only India, England or Australia can veto any decision of the ICC. Look at the two countries India chose to be above the rest – the Mother Country, England and white Australia.
Don’t forget the great Mahatma Gandhi is on record as saying that the caste system is part of Indian civilization and should not be tampered with (source: Mark Lindley, “Life and Times of Gora,” Pakashan Press, Mumbai, 2009); Dhananjay Keer, “Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission,” Pakashan Press, Mumbai, 2008). Gandhi later in his life significantly modified his views on caste, but did not reject it.
Last year, I looked at the journalistic and anchor staff of Aljazeera and CCTV in both their head offices and their American bureaus. CCTV has only one African in its Beijing head office, all the others are white and Chinese. Except for Africa, all the reporters for CCTV in other continents are white reporters. CCTV has only one non-white in its American bureau; an East Indian named Arjun Naidoo.
Aljazeera is even worse, especially in its head office in Qatar. Like Indians from India, Arabs are in love with a certain skin complexion. There are only two African-Americans in the Aljazeera American bureau. One is an anchor, the other is a deputy editor; both are half-white.
In the US, all the major networks have dark-skinned journalistic staff, with MSNBC way in front of all other networks. If there is to be one country to dominate the world, would you want it to be China, India, Russia, the Arabs or our neighbour, the US?

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