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Serious question: does Slovenia have civil rights events in its history comparable to those in the USA? Because, try as I might, I can't think of another count
by aa-jv 4y ago
Serious question: does Slovenia have civil rights events in its history comparable to those in the USA? Because, try as I might, I can't think of another country with as serious a history of civil rights (abuses and promotion) than the USA - I'd love to hear of an underrated civil rights movement in Slovenia.
- forinti 4y agoYou see, that's the whole issue right there. Slovenia has its own history, its own problems, and its own heroes. Those things are important for the Slovenian people, not the problems created and sort of solved by the US. In my country (Brazil if you must know) the cultural avalanche that comes from the US is such that some people genuinely admire the US civil rights movement and its leaders, but will not tolerate anything similar locally. Such is the power of propaganda: you get tied up in the problems of the US and ignore your own.
- aa-jv 4y agoVery good point, and I agree. But I don't see how it'll ever change for as long as the Slovenian people who know about the countrys' history never speak up and let the rest of the world know about it. America is good at one thing: being very loud, when everyone else isn't. It's a pity that we therefore associate being loud as being American...