African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1502 Aryans
The architecture of Bendel town has a strong religious and regional flavor. The original residents here believed in Arabic just like those in the Middle East. In addition, it is located in the desert and has frequent exchanges with the Arabian Peninsula. Therefore, most of the houses in Bendel are Middle Eastern-style rammed earth structures.

Only a few buildings are made of bricks and stones, and they are usually religious places or residential areas for the powerful.

East Africa did not demolish these buildings with typical religious colors, or it did not have time to demolish them. It took East Africa several years to completely stabilize the entire Horn of Africa, and the official settlement and construction of Bender took place in the past two years.

To be honest, when Ernst saw this exotic place, it actually brought back some memories.

He said: "In the past, there were many areas in the empire, including the north and east, which were deeply influenced by Arab civilization. Now, after decades, perhaps only the Horn of Africa can still see such historical relics."

Hearing the emperor's sigh, Shavan asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, do you mean to keep Bender's style?"

Ernst shook his head and said, "Tear it down, all of it. In the future, Bender will become a typical East African town. There is no need to make an exception for this small demand."

Ernst had always been ruthless when dealing with Arab civilization, and this was the fundamental reason why it took East Africa so long to completely conquer the Horn of Africa. If it just wanted to rule the Horn of Africa, it would be very easy to do, but Ernst never left any room for the later Virgin Mary groups to talk about. Every time a region was conquered, it was accompanied by the destruction of a country and the extinction of a race.

This brutal expansion policy naturally aroused frenzied resistance from the local indigenous people.

Unfortunately, the gap in strength led to them being completely wiped out by East Africa in the end.

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In a newspaper office in Mombasa, the editor-in-chief of International News Monthly, Fowler, was harshly criticizing a newspaper from Bavaria, Germany.

"This is ridiculous. This Adolf is just a clown. The so-called Aryans are complete nonsense. As a German, his behavior is like recognizing an enemy as his father."

"It's fine to find the ancestors of the German nation, but they actually picked the most ignorant and backward barbaric nation in the world as the root of the German nation. I suspect that Adolf may have drunk too much Ganges water and his brain was infected by a virus."

With Adolf's release from prison, the German National Party's propaganda organs once again exerted their strength and vigorously promoted some of their outrageous theories, which also attracted the attention of some news media and academics in East Africa.

As a German country, East Africans have always paid close attention to changes in Germany or the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In terms of historical origins, East Africa and Germany have inextricable ties. From a civilizational perspective, Germany's rapid rise since the late 19th century has made it a highly developed industrial country, which has also made many East Africans feel favorable towards Germany.

However, since the end of World War I, with the rise of East Africa's economy, the improvement of its national strength and status, and increasing contact with Germany, the relationship between the people of East Africa and Germany has become increasingly distant.

After all, Germany was once an unattainable "goddess" for East Africa. At that time, East Africa had not yet developed, and there were huge differences between it and Germany in various fields. In addition, East Africa learned from Germany in fields such as industry and military. This made a large part of East African society full of "fantasies" about Germany, a distant country.

This is not an exaggeration. After all, before 1910, East Africa was still in a closed state. In addition, East Africa was very far away from Germany. Therefore, except for businessmen, international students and upper-class elites, not many people in East Africa had actually been to Germany.

In addition, since everyone is a "relative", it is easy for distance to create beauty. Now, with the increasing openness of East Africa and the growing understanding of the world, many East Africans have discovered that Germany is not only imperfect, but has many problems.

In particular, Germany's contempt and arrogance towards the "mixed-blood" Germans in East Africa from top to bottom made the relationship between the East Africans and the German people even colder.

I am the great Rhine Empire. No matter in terms of population, territory, economy, science and technology, culture, industry, military strength or international influence, I am not inferior to you, the European sandwich. Yet you discriminate against me. It would be strange if the people of our two countries could piss in the same pot.

Just as Britain called the United States a "nouveau riche country", Americans "rude Yankees", and American English "degenerate English", the United States also fought back by calling Britain a "decadent old world" and a "despotic and decadent kingdom".

In a sense, the mutual condemnation between the people of East Africa and Germany is now more serious. After all, East Africa is not a colony opened up by Germany, and the two countries themselves have no direct relationship. Therefore, East Africans are more fierce and confident in criticizing Germany than the United States is against Britain.

The emergence of Adolf, an extreme nationalist, brought the gap between the two peoples to a peak, especially his theory of the Aryan ancestry of the Germanic people, which East Africa did not recognize.

Sitting on the sofa, Forrier said bluntly: "The Aryans have never had any relationship with the German nation. This is nothing more than the groundless conjecture and even conspiracy of some racists in Britain and France. However, Adolf, a brainless guy, believed this argument and hyped it up. This is a discredit to the entire German nation."

"As we all know, Persia and India are the orthodox Aryans. It is understandable that Britain promoted this in order to strengthen its rule and colonial activities in these two regions."

"And it is understandable that the French racist Gobineau is just a fool among the French aristocracy who wants to restore the status and power of people like him in France."

Gobineau was one of the originators of the Aryan descent theory in Europe. He divided the world's human races into different levels, and the noblest were the so-called "Aryans". He also believed that ancient Greek, Roman, Indian and other civilizations were all created by Aryans.

He also proposed that purebred Aryans were the source of civilization, but once they intermarried with other races, it would lead to "blood pollution" and civilizational degeneration. Therefore, he further claimed that the decline of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire were all caused by "racial mixing."

Dividing people into different classes is indeed in line with the history of ancient Persia and India. A little-known fact is that the root of India's current caste system was introduced from ancient Persia. After all, the Aryans were actually ancient Persians, and they conquered the Indian peninsula and derived an upgraded version of the Indian caste system based on the original Persian caste system.

In this sense, the later Arab Empire's conquest of Persia actually promoted Persia's progress, because Arabic religion was fairer than Persia's original Zoroastrianism and broke the original class stratification in Persia.

As a French aristocrat, Gobineau's advocacy of racial stratification was nothing more than advocating that aristocratic blood was more noble. Combined with the background of the decline of the French aristocracy in the 19th century and the replacement of France by the Republic, this was like the ridiculous "delusion" of the remnants of the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life.

Therefore, whether it is British or French racists who promote this kind of argument, Forrier does not care, after all, it is profitable for them to do so.

But Adolf's advocacy of Aryan ancestry was ridiculous in his eyes. Adolf was a "little punk" born in Austria. If Europe really counted people that way, then Adolf was at most a "third-class person", that is, a "Vaishya" in India. Of course, this was not the fundamental reason why Fowler hated Adolf. In essence, it was because the German folk narrative about the German nation had conflicted with East Africa.

In the East African academic community, the origin of the German nation has long been determined, that is, the ancient Germanic people, a spontaneously formed group.

To put it more simply, the East African academic community believes that before the formation of the ancient Germanic people, their ancestors had no sense of "civilization" at all and were just a group of unorganized "barbarians."

This is also the most true. After all, the earliest European civilization is ancient Greek civilization, followed by ancient Roman civilization.

But to be honest, the level of civilization in ancient Greece and early Rome was not high at that time. They were only the most basic civilizations, having just gotten rid of the primitive social form and developed countries and city-states.

At the same time, this was already the most developed civilization in Europe, but the Romans recognized the Germans, Goths, and Slavs as the three major barbarians, which were more backward than the Romans, which means that these three civilizations were still in the primitive society stage.

From this, East African scholars further derived the theory of ancient Germanic Romanization, which holds that it was the influence of the Roman Empire civilization that ultimately gave rise to the birth of German civilization.

Therefore, even if the German nation wanted to find a stepfather, it would be Roman civilization. However, the theory of Aryan ancestry that is prevalent in Germany now is not just about finding a stepfather, but directly recognizing the Aryans, who have nothing to do with Germany, as their biological father.

Therefore, it is completely reasonable for Forrier to say that Adolf "regarded the thief as his father."

At the same time, there is another point in this Aryan ancestry theory that East Africa cannot accept the most, and that is the "bloodline purity theory". Isn't this simply "pointing at" East Africa?

After all, East Africa itself is a mixed-race country, a melting pot of races, a country formed by the combination of the East and the West. More than 90% of the citizens of East Africa are of mixed race.

If one accepts this so-called theory of Aryan descent, then the German people in East Africa would truly become what Adolf called an inferior race of "mixed blood".

This is obviously an argument that no normal East African can accept.

"Look at what Adolf said about the Aryans, Indians and Persians. With their level of development, are they the so-called 'superior race'? If so, then Adolf and his supporters are just a bunch of clowns," said Furier.

"If they can even recognize India as a nation of the same origin, then the so-called Germany is not worthy of being a civilized country and can be compared with us in East Africa."

"When I think of India's hygiene, I can't believe Germany will become like that. The Rhine River is as turbid as the Ganges River, and people have to eat brown and yellow paste with their hands after cleaning the dirt."

Thanks to Ernst's influence, East Africa has always had a bad impression of India. In East Africa's long-standing propaganda about India, India has given the impression to East African citizens that it is lazy, ignorant, arrogant, fickle, unhygienic, and fond of empty talk.

This typical discriminatory propaganda was not only not criticized, but was confirmed by the contact between East Africans and India.

In other words, India is not independent today, otherwise the Indian government would definitely come out to "refute the rumors" and "protest."

This is the case with India, and Persia, another clearly Aryan country, is not much better, especially Persia in the British sphere of influence.

Today, Persia is divided into two parts by East Africa and Britain. There is also a big difference between North Persia within the East African sphere of influence and South Persia within the British sphere of influence.

Because today Persia is just like India. Their upper rulers did not originally belong to their own ethnic group. The upper class in India was Aryans, and the upper class in Persia is now mostly Azerbaijanis. This becomes more and more obvious the further north you go, and each time a minority race rules over the majority race.

Therefore, since India and Persia, typical Aryan countries, were so terrible, Fowler looked down upon Adolf and his supporters who advocated Aryans.

Zhao Dan, an editor under Fowler, said: "Adolf essentially wanted to emphasize the superiority of the Germans. Although we in East Africa and Germany are both German countries, there are great differences in interests and perceptions between the two countries."

"His idea may seem ridiculous, but it is very popular in Europe, even in Germany. After all, German civilization emerged relatively late, and civilizations like to climb up to the frontier to prove their greatness, but this has no practical significance."

"Like the earliest civilizations, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient India, Assyria, and ancient Babylon have long since declined. They appeared very early, but now they have been thrown into the garbage dump of history."

"So, it's ridiculous for Adolf to cling to the Aryans. Germany is much more civilized than those real Aryan countries. This actually lowers the value of our German nation."

"Therefore, we in East Africa should quickly cut ties with these crazy racists in Germany. Newspapers should publish opinions to refute the bad ideas of people like Adolf, clarify the German nation in the world, and especially avoid making us in East Africa smell bad."

Zhao Dan's words were deeply recognized by Furier, who said: "We want to expose the lies of the Adolf group to the whole world, and reveal the truth about the Aryans, and prove that Germany and the Aryans have nothing to do with each other."

"Zhao Dan, you will be the author of a special article and publish it in the international news section in the middle of next month. We must expose Adolf's lies to all Germans."

"International News Monthly" is actually a multinational newspaper headquartered in Mombasa, East Africa, but it also has considerable influence in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There is a German branch of the newspaper in Stuttgart. Therefore, in the southern German region where Adolf is active, the sales volume of "International News Monthly" is not small.

Of course, although they are both in the southern German region of Germany, there are differences. Adolf's base is Bavaria, in the southeast of Germany, while the International News Monthly mainly influences the southwestern region of Germany represented by Baden and Württemberg.

(End of this chapter)