Montuno
...como el Son...
This will be my last message here:
I will give you an imaginary image of my identity, a la Cervantes: Imagine that I am a Marxist (democratic; not Bolshevik) and Muslim (practising or not; but not fundamentalist) Spanish European.
I will now give you my socio-politico-cultural (not geographical) concept of contemporary Western Europe:
Those societies whose politics and morals are guided-inspired by the Ideals of Classical Greek Philosophy and Ethics n' democratic ideal. We can add to them the French revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.
Full stop.
I do not need to agree neither in my religion, nor in my political ideas, with someone with whom I do agree on what is highlighted in bold, in order to recognise him as my "fellow Western European"... Even if he is a right-winger, a Christian, or a Scandinavian lover of black metal.
Likewise on the contrary, even if I share my Muslim religion, or my Marxist ideals, if the other person does not share what is highlighted in bold, even though we live under the same roof...
And I have come to these conclusions on my own, with the limited intelligence that the racial classification you spread, and being a muslim and a marxist, predicted me.
I have not needed anyone to inflame the hatred of my Christian and right-wing neighbour with whom I live in peace, for him to come and convince me...or to do worse things to me...
Even less so in my country, where we have killed each other, as we have fruitfully and peacefully coexisted with three and more cultures/religions during secles.
I will give you an imaginary image of my identity, a la Cervantes: Imagine that I am a Marxist (democratic; not Bolshevik) and Muslim (practising or not; but not fundamentalist) Spanish European.
I will now give you my socio-politico-cultural (not geographical) concept of contemporary Western Europe:
Those societies whose politics and morals are guided-inspired by the Ideals of Classical Greek Philosophy and Ethics n' democratic ideal. We can add to them the French revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.
Full stop.
I do not need to agree neither in my religion, nor in my political ideas, with someone with whom I do agree on what is highlighted in bold, in order to recognise him as my "fellow Western European"... Even if he is a right-winger, a Christian, or a Scandinavian lover of black metal.
Likewise on the contrary, even if I share my Muslim religion, or my Marxist ideals, if the other person does not share what is highlighted in bold, even though we live under the same roof...
And I have come to these conclusions on my own, with the limited intelligence that the racial classification you spread, and being a muslim and a marxist, predicted me.
I have not needed anyone to inflame the hatred of my Christian and right-wing neighbour with whom I live in peace, for him to come and convince me...or to do worse things to me...
Even less so in my country, where we have killed each other, as we have fruitfully and peacefully coexisted with three and more cultures/religions during secles.