{"id":39276,"date":"2024-11-04T04:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=39276"},"modified":"2024-11-04T04:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:18:10","slug":"cyrillic-%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be-%d0%b2%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d1%83%d0%b3%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b5%d1%82-%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%bd%d1%8c%d1%88%d0%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/cyrillic-%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be-%d0%b2%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d1%83%d0%b3%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b5%d1%82-%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%bd%d1%8c%d1%88%d0%b8\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrillic: \u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u0443\u0433\u043d\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u043c\u0435\u043d\u044c\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e. (Russian)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyrillic<\/em><\/strong>: \u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u0443\u0433\u043d\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u043c\u0435\u043d\u044c\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e. Romanized<\/strong>: Bol’shinstvo vsegda ugnetayet men’shinstvo. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Majority always victimizes the minority. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Part 1, Summary<\/p>\n

Part 2 What I learned<\/p>\n

Epilogue<\/p>\n

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Part 1, Summary – The majority ALWAYS victimizes the minority in EVERY country.\u00a0 The sin of Pride in the majority looking down on the minority who look, act, and speak differently began at the Tower of Babel.\u00a0\u00a0 People groups formed by language and prejudice emerged along linguistic lines. Cultures emerged from Genesis 11:6,\u00a0<\/strong>“The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.<\/p>\n

Slavery has been called the original sin of the United States.[1]<\/a> But surely the nations of Asia (my gene pool) have been victimizing each other far longer with equal brutality.\u00a0 The African majority tribes actively sold their weaker minorities into the hands of the colonial white majorities, looking for cheap \u201cslave\u201d labor.<\/p>\n

Part 2. Jeremy Blacks, A Brief History of Slavery\u2019s<\/em> subtitle \u2013with the tagline A new GLOBAL History, <\/em>emphasized the global sin of slavery. [2]<\/sup><\/a> Black writes,<\/p>\n

Slavery was a central element of the Classical world and the world we know today. It was significant to the Babylonian laws of Eshnunna of about 1900 BC and the Code of Hammurabi of about 1750. Egypt obtained slaves from Nubia, the north of modern Sudan to the south, and frequent wars provided large numbers of captives. [3]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Black goes on to describe the 1) Global Perspective, 2) Economic Motives, 3) Abolition Movements, and 4) Lasting Impact of Slavery. The book confirmed my thinking by providing examples of majority versus minority worldwide.<\/p>\n

Nigel Biggar writes,<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the people of one culture meet another and dominate it in number and power, only three outcomes are possible: either the dominant people annihilate the dominated one,\u00a0the latter adapts and assimilates, or the two people separate.\u201d [4]<\/a><\/p>\n

As the director for GoodSports Ukraine (www.goodsportsinternational.org<\/a>)\u00a0 I anguishly await the outcome of this Ukrainian\/Russian conflict. Maria Saito for Reuters writes,<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly\u00a0last year, teachers at a school in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine announced the arrival of a very special guest from Moscow. Many of the pupils at the Henichesk Number 27 Vocational School were orphans or separated from their families. Among them were Liza Batsura and Zorik Ibrian, both 16 and from Kherson (Ukraine), one of the first cities to fall when Russia invaded a year earlier.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

Not unlike the Babylonians taking Jewish children into their structures. Russia has also taken Ukrainian children to assimilate<\/strong> them into their Russian \u201cMajority\u201d structures.<\/p>\n

Epilogue:<\/p>\n

As part of the U.S. Asian \u201cmodel minority,\u201d[6]<\/a> education has always been the dominant avenue for success allowing immigrant stock, like me (Chinese\/Filipino), to move forward within the US majority structures. Joining the U.S. Army, like my grandfather and uncles before me, gave me credibility as an\u201d American.\u201d Serving in three wars (two shooting and one support) made me \u201cnoteworthy\u201d to others in the US majority, and marrying a woman from the majority and adopting children of the majority demonstrates the changing norms in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Speaking with another minority member of the program on this topic, they said to me that Afro-Americans should \u201cjust get over it.\u201d At the beginning of this program, I might have agreed with them. \u00a0After all, slavery was abolished years ago.<\/p>\n

However, I could argue that we, as part of the educational elite, have a jaded viewpoint. While I have earned my place in the US majority, many of my gene pool minorities have not. That the wounds of Majority\/Minority conflict are still bleeding in current 2024 US minds. Other US minorities, not currently embroiled in the \u201cnewsworthy black versus white\u201d conflict would do good to be reminded of this fact.<\/p>\n

Shalom<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States<\/em>, First edition (New York\u202f; London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018).\u00a0 Additionally, President Barack Obama used the phrase “original sin” to describe slavery on multiple occasions throughout his presidency, especially when addressing race relations and historical injustices in the United States. Here are some notable instances: “A More Perfect Union” Speech<\/strong> (March 18, 2008) \u2013National Prayer Breakfast<\/strong> (February 5, 2015) \u2013 Washington, D.C. Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney<\/strong> (June 26, 2015) \u2013 Charleston, South Carolina: After the tragic shooting at Emanuel AME Church, slavery as an “original sin” in America, tying it to the church\u2019s own historical connection to the abolitionist movement. (ChatGPT)<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Remarks on the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/strong> (September 24, 2016) \u2013 Washington, D.C.: During the dedication, Obama explicitly called slavery the “original sin” of the United States, noting that the museum itself was a testament to the ongoing journey toward justice and reconciliation. He emphasized the lasting impact of slavery on the nation\u2019s culture, identity, and politics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    [2]<\/a> Jeremy Black, A Brief History of Slavery<\/em>, Brief History Of (Philadelphia\u202f: London: Running Press Book Publishers\u202f; Robinson, 2011).<\/p>\n

    [3]<\/a> Ibid., 13-14<\/p>\n

    [4]<\/a> Nigel Biggar, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning<\/em> (London: William Collins, 2023),<\/p>\n

    [5]<\/a> Maria Tsvetkova and Margarita Antidze, \u201cHow Russian Officials and Collaborators Vanish Ukraine\u2019s Children,\u201d Reuters Investigates<\/em>, last modified October 27, 2023, https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/ukraine-crisis-children<\/a><\/p>\n

    [6]<\/a> \u201cAsian Americans and the Model Minority Stereotype,\u201d Pew Research Center<\/em>, last modified November 30, 2023, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2023\/11\/30\/asian-americans-and-the-model-minority-stereotype\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Cyrillic: \u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u0443\u0433\u043d\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u043c\u0435\u043d\u044c\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e. Romanized: Bol’shinstvo vsegda ugnetayet men’shinstvo. The Majority always victimizes the minority. Part 1, Summary Part 2 What I learned Epilogue   Part 1, Summary – The majority ALWAYS victimizes the minority in EVERY country.\u00a0 The sin of Pride in the majority looking down on the minority who look, act, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,3120,2012],"class_list":["post-39276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp02","tag-biggar","tag-black","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39276\/revisions\/39282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}