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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] Sorry I got way off topic on this thread but it is kind of relevant because it shows how local histories have been distorted as a result of European colonialism. This is why its great you are learning these languages because you can read what people wrote in Pre-colonial times without the text being distorted through translations. It is so incredible how much of this literature must have been completely altered. I can't really trust anything I read. Concerning the quote from Masudi it is claimed that he distorted what Galen said because Masudi was racist "West Asian views on black Africans during the medieval era" http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2002&x=arabviews [QUOTE]"Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament."7 Al Jahiz, Kitab al-Hayawan, vol. 2 [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Galen says that merriment dominates the black man because of his defective brain, whence also the weakness of his intelligence." Al-Masudi (d. 956 AD), Muruj al-dhahab [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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