[Dionisio]

I’m starting to think that TSR is only frequented by British friends, which means it is pretty weird for me to be posting in here. Nonetheless, I ran across the site when making a research on Google about pessimism. To the topic:

Africa has suffered for long enough, this I doubt not. History itself is unfair for such a naturally blessed continent. With Mercantilism and the tendency of centralizing the political and economical matter unto an absolute monarch, the Europeans countries managed to develop very quickly. Besides, the contact with the Middle Orient created the bourgeoisie and brought up the end of Feudalism, so the nations overcame the superstitions and started to explore the seas, being the strongest colonial economies Portugal, Spain, Holland and Britain. Africa and America were “discovery” (really, how can they have been discovered if the natives were already there?”. The latter one turned out to be populated by Europeans and slaves alike; unfortunately, most of the colonies were of exploration, with the exception of the British colony in the North America, mainly made of those who fled from the repression of the Anglicans, and thanks for it being a colony of population, the United Stated of America became what it is today. America is pretty fortunate, atrocities were done to the natives, but the some funds derived from the exploration turned out to go to the farmhand, but again, atrocities were done in America, but there’s no comparison to the lack of humanity done to our poor African friends. Those were slaved, raped, all nature resources went to the metropolis, and the Africans were seen as inferior, even though the Renaissance had already blossomed out. Cruelty and greed is the right word to describe the Colonization of Africa. Even today, the ignorance and lack of culture called racism still exists. We all have a debt to Africa, for what we’ve done is unforgivable. It is still explored, war erupts in there and the UN just closes its eyes. What kind of mentality do we still have? What is more important: the economy or the human being?
Here’s a poem made by me, my pseudonym is “Tucano”. It might sound arrogant, but please, don’t plagiarize:

Teus lábios, minha tão estimada,
Resplandecem vida e lucidez
Gritam o alvor da vida cortês
E mostram o quão tu me és amada

Mas oh, Isabela, a vida não é uma poesia,
Tamanha é a nossa heresia
Escarnecemos nossos irmãos
Ofendemos o bendito coração

Esquecemo-nos dos primórdios afetivos
Abstemo-nos da bíblica salvação
Pois seja tua formosa mão
Teus tão lindos olhos cativos

Sejam vossas emoções
Nossas escassas sensações
De tudo, e todos, somos humanos
Esquecidos humanos.

I put it on the Google Translator and the translation was pretty decent, but since it is poesy, is lost it’s meaning:

Your lips, my cherished,
Life shine and clarity
Cry the dawn of life courteous
And show me how you are loved

But oh, Isabela, life is not a poem,
Such heresy is our
Sneer at our brothers
Offend the blessed heart

We forget the early affective
We refrain from biblical salvation
For it is your beautiful hand
Your eyes so beautiful captive

Let your emotions
Our limited feelings
All, and all are human
Forgotten humans.

[Stratos]

(Original post by Limitless)
I like how people completely ignore the long term economic benefits of immigration.

Of course they do, humans only look at the short term benefits that's how we've always rolled, we lack intelligence are greedy and filled to the brim with double-standards.

[CHAMON]

Make life in their countries better, jobs etc. Don't show hatred, remember the Irish, Germans, English and many other immigrants that went to the USA for a 'better life' so why should these people be any different?!