Ethnic Strife Quotes
This was one of the most accurate foreign policy assessments ever made. The next year the first Arab-Israeli war began when the state of Israel came into being. See {624566} for another accurate prediction.
Tito did a marvelous job of keeping the lid on the ethnic hatred that was always present. Where he failed however was that as soon as Tito died, the ethnic groups were literally at each others’ throats.
Even into the 21st century, the problem was not solved and Muslims from Pakistan continue their futile but tragic terrorist tactics to try and acquire more territory from India." 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
The strife between the indigenous Fiji people and the Indian immigrants was not as serious when Indian immigration to Fiji began. The immigrants rented land from the natives at good prices and did the hard work of tilling the land. They had a different work ethic and developed the Fiji economy substantially. However, the Indians became more wealthy and better educated. The minority group became equal or dominant in most aspects of Fijian society and inter-ethnic strife and jealousy eventually developed. This became the modern problem of Fiji.
This included the non-Muslim Arabs and the Jews.
Muslim League leaders wanted to stir up India's Muslims in order to prevent Indian Independence from Britain unless India were partitioned and the Muslims could have their own nation. At that point the British and the Congress Party of India—the majority political party were both starting to plan for independence. Most of the Muslim nationalists did not want to have any Muslims living in a Majority Hindu nation. To stop it, they first used fear claiming that when the British left, the Hindus would massacre all the Muslims. They galvanized the Muslims to first attack the Hindus to dissuade then from their attacks which at that point were imaginary except in the conspiracy theory of the Muslim League. The moral logic of this statement was similar, albeit not to the same bloody degree, as the famous quotation of Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater on extremism." H. S. Suhrawardy
Carson was one of the few Indian Agents who spent every penny of his budget on the Indians as opposed to himself. He was married to an Indian woman and was close enough to many Indians that he understood their resentment whenever they came into a town. They were treated terribly and while most of them were literally starving, seeing the white opulence produced resentment.
There was extensive Northern opposition to the idea of Blacks fighting in the Civil War, even from some abolitionists who saw the war as a vehicle to end slavery. A few were concerned that Blacks would be executed by the South if they were captured, and hence would be exposed to unreasonable risk. Others, believed there was sufficient manpower and Blacks fighting would make the South fight harder. Many didn’t believe that Blacks were competent to be soldiers, and others didn’t want Blacks to develop the skills that would later enable them to compete for jobs with whites. Before Albion raising the 54th there were a few Negroes who were in Union uniform, but the concept of a Negro regiment was a much more visible, and controversial concept.
The example that is often given is Singapore of the late 20th century.
Tito did a remarkable job of suppressing the historical ethnic and religious strife among the nationalities and religious groups of Yugoslavia. Hatred and the thirst for “justice”, nationalism, and vengeance went back 1000 years in the Balkans. However, when Tito died, Yugoslavia collapsed in a resumption of the traditional inter-ethnic hatred and violence.
