{"id":281114,"date":"2026-01-07T06:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=281114"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:57:44","slug":"white-mans-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/white-mans-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"White Man's Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"America is being rediscovered.
\nNo more ships. No oceans. No gold rush, no crowds disregarding indigenous rights. But there is the media. There is Twitter. And there are those who talk, argue and run with the same appetite.
\nThere are those who make other countries states in the name of America, who enlarge and shrink the map and discuss other people's territories as a playground.
\nThis language is familiar, because it was once like this.
\nThat day they called it a \u201cdiscovery\u201d.
\n\u201cThey said \u201dcivilization\".
\n\u201cA new world,\u201d they said.
\nBrave sailors, new horizons, journey into the unknown...
\nIt was told like a fairy tale.
\nIn the past they called it \u201cexploration\u201d.
\nToday they say \u201cdemocracy\u201d, \u201cfreedom\u201d, \u201cstability\u201d.
\nThe word has changed, the story remains the same:
\nSoil.
\nSource.
\nPower.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

The story of America has always been told to us as an adventure.
\nBrave white men, sailing into the unknown, a new world...
\nThat was the story.
\nBut the reality was different.
\nSome of the first to go were not explorers, but undesirables: debtors, convicts, evacuees from prisons. The New World was not just a place of hope; it was a place of release from the burdens of the old world. The dream of those who went North was not to live off the land; it was gold, furs, quick profit.
\nThe natives were a hindrance.
\nAnd the barriers were removed.
\nIn South America, another story was written. The land cultivators are gone. The church is gone. New peoples were born. There was liquidation in the north and exploitation in the south. The American north was referred to as \u201cwhite\u201d and the American south as \u201cmulatto\u201d. This was not an innocent demographic difference, but the historical result of two different models of domination, two different techniques of violence.
\nSomeone will delete it.
\nThe other suppresses.
\nSome shared the land.
\nSome washed the soil with blood.
\nThen history was made.
\nBy the winners.
\nWe were told stories of the white man's heroism.
\nHowever, Dee Brown's book \u201cBury My Heart in My Homeland\u201d, while showing the colonial violence and cultural assimilation of both the past and the present with concrete examples, clearly states the following: There was no \u201cwar\u201d in this land.
\nThere were agreements.
\nSigned, broken, re-signed and broken again.
\nThe Indians kept their word.
\nWithdrew from their lands.
\nHe laid down his arms.
\nThen the army came.
\nThe book does not shout. But it whispers this memorable phrase:
\n\u201cThe whites made many promises; they kept none of them except one. They said they would take our land and they did. They blamed savagery on the Indians; even the hunters who scalped and took trophies blamed their crimes on the Indians.\u201d
\nThe white man is still doing the same thing.
\nAnd the question arises:
\nIf there is savagery, who have we been calling savages for years?
\nThe answer is disturbing.
\nThat is why truth is never told.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Jared Diamond, in his book \u201cRifles, Germs and Steel\u201d, looks at it from another angle and breaks the fairy tale: The West did not win because it was more moral or innately genetically superior.
\nHe won because he had a rifle.
\nHe won because he had the germ.
\nHe won because he had steel.
\nSo the winners were not \u201cbetter and superior people\u201d but those with more lethal means.
\nBut the white man's narrative of righteousness has never ended.
\nHe just changed the language.
\nToday we are looking at Venezuela.
\nThe same sentences again.
\nThe indigenous people, the poor, the ordinary people of Venezuela are still alone today. Just as the Indians were once left alone. There are grand narratives again.
\nAgain the experts speak.
\nAgain, maps are opened on tables.
\nThere is oil.
\nSource.
\nThere is strategic interest.
\nAnd again, the people are an obstacle to these interests.
\nThen they called it \u201ccivilization\u201d.
\nToday they say \u201cfreedom\u201d.
\nAt that time, the locals were backward.
\nToday the poor people are unconscious.
\n\u201cThere is a dictator.\u201d
\n\u201cThere is no democracy.\u201d
\n\u201cThe people must be saved.\u201d
\nFamiliar, isn't it?
\nThe locals were an obstacle yesterday.
\nToday the poor people are the obstacle.
\nThey live on resources.
\nThey are mismanaged.
\nThey make wrong choices.
\nThis is how the white man's adventure continues.
\nAnd this adventure continues not only with the gun, but also with the pen, the screen, academia and columns.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

The point is this:
\nDo we still have to believe this story?
\nOr are we going to accept this:
\nThis is not an adventure.
\nThis is a tyranny, a banditry that has been going on for centuries.
\nThe white man's adventure continues.
\nThe stories of the vanquished peoples remain in footnotes.
\nMaybe the real question is:
\nDo we still choose to believe in the fairy tale written by the white man?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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