A comment I received from an Anglo-Canadian about the Portuguese...

[O Trovador]

Much appreciated. Perhaps I will refer him to this page in particular, so that he may get an understanding of what true Europeans think.

[Carnyx]

Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Japan in the XVIth c. Not bad at all.

[Erasmus]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Japan in the XVIth c. Not bad at all.

Alguns feitos alcançados por navegadores portugueses:

- Em 1434 Gil Eanes passa o Cabo Bojador.
- Em 1455-56 Cadamosto chega às Ilhas de Cabo Verde.
-Em 1471-72 João de Santarém e Pedro Escobar descobrem São Tomé e Príncipe.
-Em 1487 Bartolomeu Dias consegue ultrapassar com sucesso o Cabo da Boa Esperança, depois de anteriores tentativas falhadas que tiraram a vida a muitos navegadores.
-Em 1492-98 João Fernandes Lavrador e Pedro de Barcelos chegam à Gronelândia e à Terra Nova.
- Em 1498 Vasco da Gama chega a Calecute, na Índia. Saiu de Portugal em 1497 e regressou apenas em 1499.
- Em 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral chega ao Brasil.
- Fomos os primeiros europeus a comerciar com a China e com o Japão.


- Alguns elementos históricos referem que teremos sido os primeiros a ter contacto com a Austrália

http://www.ciari.org/opiniao/descobr...rnet.htm#_ftn4

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by Vasconcelos

I was too livid to form a reasonable response. Is this how we are truly viewed by fellow Europeans? Contributors of nothing?

No. This man is from Canada. North Americans know little or nothing about history. What else can be expected from a continent whose history prior to the arrival Europeans is unknown and whose armies fell so easily -- best example it took Cortes something like 500 men to take over Mexico because the natives thought he was a god because he had a beard.

Plus. This is an anglo-saxon speaking. They tend to be like North Americans except that they know only about English history and not about any other country, and even what they do know is often inaccurate. I remember hereing an Englishman say that until he saw Braveheart he didn't know that there was any resistance by the Scots to English rule because in school he was doubt that the Scots welcomed the English with open arms.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by svin

Actually, all Europeans are friendly in general. All Finns I've met were very friendly and polite.

As for non-Europeans, I can say that Caucasians are agressive and non-friendly in general. Unlike Europeans, where only minority are agressive, the majority of Caucasians are agressive. I hate their behaviour.

I dislike Caucasians in general also. Personally, I only like Armenians because they all hate Turks as much as I do. Georgians I find are too much like opportunistic whores and the rest of the Caucausoids to me are too Turkic.

From my experience I'd say all europeans are firendly in general. So long as they aren't the English.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

One Dutch poster at Skadi once claimed that Croatians are in fact Turks and that there is no difference between two nations!

I've heard worse. My friend heard some Dutch white supremacist claim that Serbs are Arabs, and that there is no difference between the two nations!

[Susi]

Originally Posted by Crvena zvezda

No. This man is from Canada. North Americans know little or nothing about history. What else can be expected from a continent whose history prior to the arrival Europeans is unknown and whose armies fell so easily -- best example it took Cortes something like 500 men to take over Mexico because the natives thought he was a god because he had a beard.

I would agree about this. I think tomorrow I will post a thread of amusing quotations from my "World History" (i.e. "European History") textbook. There are things that are a little off, things that are a little funny, and things that are completely wrong. Canadians know nothing of Europe. We have debates every week in the same history class and they make the wildest contentions about Europe.. I keep reminding them that there is more than one nation in Europe, but they keep forgetting.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by Susi

I would agree about this. I think tomorrow I will post a thread of amusing quotations from my "World History" (i.e. "European History") textbook. There are things that are a little off, things that are a little funny, and things that are completely wrong. Canadians know nothing of Europe. We have debates every week in the same history class and they make the wildest contentions about Europe.. I keep reminding them that there is more than one nation in Europe, but they keep forgetting.

Not just history. They're horrendously bad when it comes to geography. I remember reading a book about a Serbian author who was in Canada from 1998-2001, he had the following experience with Canadians:
#1. A Canadian thought FR Yugoslavia was Mongolia. His reasoning was that China and Russia opposed NATO bombing it and that country is wedged between them.
#2. Another one though we were North Korea. Saying Kosovo was South Korea. He thought the Japanese islands were Albania, Croatia and Bosnia.
#3. When he said Serbia was landlocked and asked one to find the ex-Yu countries and Albanian on a map. A Canadian then said what is Kazakhstan is Serbia, the Kyrgyzstan was Albania, Uzbekistan Kosovo, Turkmenistan Croatia, Tajikistan Bosnia, Afghanistan Slovenia.

All three occurances make me laigh.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Crvena zvezda

I've heard worse. My friend heard some Dutch white supremacist claim that Serbs are Arabs, and that there is no difference between the two nations!

Funny lot the Dutch. Always making friends.

This Staff member of Skadi, Siegfried, who is a Nordicist, used to rant against so-called Meds (Southern Europeans) in The Netherlands. The funny thing is that, for all I know, it is the Dutch who are flooding Southern European countries. In the town where I live and in the surrounding areas there are lots of them. For such a small country, The Netherlands produces a large number of emigrants. If you visit The Netherlands you will find one of the biggest centers of multiculturalism in Europe. The biggest together with London. South Asians, North Africans, Black Africans, you name them!

The Dutch are the pioneers of liberalism and multiculturalism. He had to shut up his mouth up in his rants against the Portuguese when I showed him a report saying that there was Black and Indonesian admixture in The Netherlands from the colonial times. And also when I showed him the data of Dutch immigrants in Spain. When I told him what he proposed to do with them, he said that he would write "a note to tell them to return to The Netherlands, if he could trust that I would give hand it to the Dutch population here".

What a moron!

Think that before being a Nordicist in Skadi, he used to be a WN in Stormfront, where he posted as Siegfried Augustus.

Since I've seen other Dutch like him (in Skadi there is also Aistulf), I can't feel any sympathies for the Dutch nor interest for their fate. You can't build bridges of co-operation in Europe with such a people. They make the effort a waste and only bring destruction. The best thing is to keep them apart.

[Milesian]

Originally Posted by Susi

I would agree about this. I think tomorrow I will post a thread of amusing quotations from my "World History" (i.e. "European History") textbook. There are things that are a little off, things that are a little funny, and things that are completely wrong. Canadians know nothing of Europe. We have debates every week in the same history class and they make the wildest contentions about Europe.. I keep reminding them that there is more than one nation in Europe, but they keep forgetting.

Yes, this is hard to believe.
I'd like to think that I know the difference between Japan and China, or Brazil and Argentina, despite not living on those continents.
Yet, I find Americans barely know where the states within their own country are in relation to each other.

When I visited the US, it seemed to me that they divided the world into two parts:- America and Europe.
This is the only way I can make sense of the time two guys in a Florida Waffle House in the 1980's asked where I came from. When I told him he said he thought I was Welsh whilst his colleague thought I was Australian. but at least they knew i was from somewhere in Europe!

[Breydel]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

... And also when I showed him the data of Dutch immigrants in Spain. When I told him what he proposed to do with them, he said that he would write "a note to tell them to return to The Netherlands, if he could trust that I would give hand it to the Dutch population here".

What a moron!

LOL, right

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Since I've seen other Dutch like him (in Skadi there is also Aistulf), I can't feel any sympathies for the Dutch nor interest for their fate. You can't build bridges of co-operation in Europe with such a people. They make the effort a waste and only bring destruction. The best thing is to keep them apart.

no worries folks, the individual of myself makes up for it all