06-23-2014, 08:54 AM
[quote='metalfan91' pid='167652' dateline='1402945862']
[quote='nb' pid='167339' dateline='1402573133']
Hi metalfan91!
In what ways don't you agree. And by what do you mean "both sides of history" (there are only 2?)? This history of colonization is multi-tiered. For example, the Spanish conquered the Aztecs,yet, before that, the Aztecs conquered neighboring societies and those people fought for control with eachother. There are multiple sides right there.
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i understand you based the poem on the image of civilization's struggle against barbarians and its reversal interpretation (natives' struggle against invasors).
that picture could be enriched avoiding to put their views of history so directly, for their speech sounds too much like war propaganda; and the propaganda hides the complexity your refers to in your comment.
but before that I also believe that propaganda, and the feelings under it, could be better depicted, by working on that verses i referred to.
[quote='nb' pid='167339' dateline='1402573133']
Hi metalfan91!
In what ways don't you agree. And by what do you mean "both sides of history" (there are only 2?)? This history of colonization is multi-tiered. For example, the Spanish conquered the Aztecs,yet, before that, the Aztecs conquered neighboring societies and those people fought for control with eachother. There are multiple sides right there.
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i understand you based the poem on the image of civilization's struggle against barbarians and its reversal interpretation (natives' struggle against invasors).
that picture could be enriched avoiding to put their views of history so directly, for their speech sounds too much like war propaganda; and the propaganda hides the complexity your refers to in your comment.
but before that I also believe that propaganda, and the feelings under it, could be better depicted, by working on that verses i referred to.
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