It is strange how history plays games with man. Many seemingly unrelated events actually follow a particular pattern. We would not know as it is unfolding only to realise it in hindsight.
I noticed a few patterns of late which is actually what had happened before, many years ago...
At the turn of the 20th century, the civilised colonial masters decided to civilise the natives making them a feel that the visitors with the purest intention at heart to make their land (the natives') as developed and cultured as theirs. They brought in plants that were foreign to this land and developed them to make its produce an irreplaceable and invaluable commodity in the world market. They discovered minerals that were sitting right under their feet all these while and brought it to greater heights. When labour was scarce and was needed for these labour intensive feats, the masters told the natives not to worry. The masters assured them that the natives' importance and well being would be taken care of. They would always be number one. In the sly, starving poverty-stricken foreign labourers were brought in to break their back to spearhead the new dawn of economy.
Fast forward, the natives soon realised that the guests had taken over the realm.
Pretty soon the offspring of the guests, after being flushed with comforts that their parents had sorely missed and did not want their descendants to be deprived of, grew up in padded environment. To be a helping hand, again foreign help was employed to replace the role of their effluent elders who by then were too posh to break their backs. Droves of help flew in to fill the gap, not minding their slave like working conditions.
Of course, these productive workers at the prime of their reproduction years do not just come in with their baggage of poverty alone. With them come social responsibility and their zest to alter their downline, their fate, their escape from poverty for the rest of their descendants.
And the cycle would continue with the second generation offspring of the workers/guests/survivors repeating the same process all over again. Each would be citing their earlier arrival, the sweat that their ancestors had toiled to uplift the status of the only land that they know as home and their demand for equal slice in the economic pie and their place in the sun...
I noticed a few patterns of late which is actually what had happened before, many years ago...
At the turn of the 20th century, the civilised colonial masters decided to civilise the natives making them a feel that the visitors with the purest intention at heart to make their land (the natives') as developed and cultured as theirs. They brought in plants that were foreign to this land and developed them to make its produce an irreplaceable and invaluable commodity in the world market. They discovered minerals that were sitting right under their feet all these while and brought it to greater heights. When labour was scarce and was needed for these labour intensive feats, the masters told the natives not to worry. The masters assured them that the natives' importance and well being would be taken care of. They would always be number one. In the sly, starving poverty-stricken foreign labourers were brought in to break their back to spearhead the new dawn of economy.Fast forward, the natives soon realised that the guests had taken over the realm.
Pretty soon the offspring of the guests, after being flushed with comforts that their parents had sorely missed and did not want their descendants to be deprived of, grew up in padded environment. To be a helping hand, again foreign help was employed to replace the role of their effluent elders who by then were too posh to break their backs. Droves of help flew in to fill the gap, not minding their slave like working conditions.Of course, these productive workers at the prime of their reproduction years do not just come in with their baggage of poverty alone. With them come social responsibility and their zest to alter their downline, their fate, their escape from poverty for the rest of their descendants.
And the cycle would continue with the second generation offspring of the workers/guests/survivors repeating the same process all over again. Each would be citing their earlier arrival, the sweat that their ancestors had toiled to uplift the status of the only land that they know as home and their demand for equal slice in the economic pie and their place in the sun...
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