Erik Rush: Africa and India Colonized Because Their People Seemed 'Only a Few Steps Out of the Trees'

Erik Rush: Africa and India Colonized Because Their People Seemed ‘Only a Few Steps Out of the Trees’

Wingnuts • August 2013 • Views: 1,153

WorldNetDaily columnist Erik Rush is upset that Americans may appreciate other (read: inferior) cultures, lamenting that it all started when “the Beatles brought East Indian culture to the West.”

Rush asks: “Why in the world ought America be more like India? It was their culture that gave the British the impression they were only a few steps out of the trees, so India was colonized. The same goes for Africa.”

He goes on to explain that it is all part of a communist conspiracy, of course, that seeks to “insidiously break down our sense of national pride” and establish “slavery to elites.”

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11 comments

Skip Intro Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:20:26am

Right, Eric, and it had absolutely nothing whatever to do with stealing their natural resources.

jaunte Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:24:45am

Still, for many years, I have puzzled over Americans who become inordinately and superficially enamored of foreign things. We’ve all seen the plight of starry-eyed young American girls who fall in love with a mass media-proffered stereotype of some romantic foreign male, then run off and marry one, only to discover that the man’s culture is frighteningly cloying and patriarchal, sometimes dangerously so.

He’s right, women could get that in Virginia, Texas, or the Carolinas.

Shiplord Kirel Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:29:26am

……thugocracy in which cheap hustlers, decadent old-money deviants and narcissistic elites will rule like princes over us all.

Rush is projecting here.

Shiplord Kirel Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:30:27am

I guess this fool has never heard of Mohenjo-Daro, which is a long way from the trees and a long way back in time.

GeneJockey Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:33:40am

2 words. Taj Mahal. Clearly, these folks were just down from the trees.
//biting

GeneJockey Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:42:25am

I gotta say, when I read that Indian culture was “…only a few steps out of the trees, so India was colonized”, I think, ‘While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to rule galaxies!’

jvic Thu, Aug 1, 2013 10:56:35am

1. It has apparently escaped Erik Rush’s notice that Buddhism predates Christianity by about a half-millennium, and that Hinduism similarly predates Buddhism.

2. Iirc Thomas Sowell has pointed out that people who are confident in their culture do not hesitate to adopt from other cultures things that make their lives better.

3. As a conservative, I agree that America and the West are in malaise. I do not agree with the in(s)ane notion that willful stupidity is the cure.

4. An uneducated guess: The Brits, aka Perfidious Albion, were used to playing the squabbling powers of continental Europe off against each other. This experience was relevant when they encountered the squabbling kingdoms of India. In contrast, the Chinese at least paid lip service to the central government in Beijing.

Carlos Danger Thu, Aug 1, 2013 11:14:41am

The BEATLES!!

Ace-o-aces Thu, Aug 1, 2013 11:59:39am

From the article:

Contrary to the claim of liberals, these things have far less to do with race than they do with culture.

Translation: “It’s not about race, it’s about culture. And by ‘culture’, I mean ‘race’”.

Romantic Heretic Thu, Aug 1, 2013 1:22:00pm

Yet another person who prefers mythology to history.

majii Thu, Aug 1, 2013 7:18:01pm

The Mahabharata is all the evidence one needs to dispose of Rush’s claim that the people of India were colonized because their people seemed to be ‘Only a Few Steps Out of the Trees,’ and the centralized governments of the early African kingdoms should do the same for the pre-colonial people on the African continent. It galls me to see uneducated tools writing about other cultures and peoples based on their biased view of history. Rush needs to pick up a few books on India and Africa, but wait, I guess doing this wouldn’t allow him to revise history to his liking.

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