Chapter 111 The One Hundred and Ten Figures Theory of Civilization
The current population of East Africa (including indigenous people) is equivalent to that of the British Australian colony. However, if we want to fully develop East Africa, this population is simply not enough.
Unlike Canada, Australia and other British colonies, behind it stands the flourishing British Empire.
Therefore, although Canada and Australia have small populations, security is not a problem, especially Australia, which is surrounded by sea and has no foreign enemies.
The East African colonies were only backed by Ernst and the Hechingen consortium, which could not withstand the hardships.
The only way to control East Africa is to continue to immigrate. With a larger population, security will naturally be more secure.
Just like the Ottomans and the Far East, when facing the great powers, although they were forced to give up some of their interests, with their considerable population and size, no one could take one bite.
Of course, negative material like India does not count, so national cohesion is not a castle in the air, but really exists.
In order to ensure the stability of East African rule, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the identity of immigrants, assimilate and eliminate their unique culture, and finally form a set of cultural identity unique to East Africa.
If you engage in Western ethnography, it will definitely lead to disaster. Therefore, even if it is a black indigenous person, Ernst does not deny his intelligence.
When Ernst was compiling colonial textbooks, his description of black indigenous people was that they could be transformed through education, but they were affected by history and culture, making their transformation extremely costly.
Ernst did not say that black people are inferior to other races, but black people cannot even farm and are still in an extremely primitive stage. Their ideas cannot be corrected in a hundred years.
And if black people are not expelled, where will the East African land be for immigrants like you to survive? So you must learn to be grateful, remember your identity as an East African German, and give back to the motherland in the future.
It is better to be honest than to have the lie exposed in the end. Now all East African immigrants are Ernst's accomplices. In the future, the descendants of East African immigrants cannot be blamed on their ancestors.
As for racism, Ernst himself did not believe in this theory, and he would not use this theory in East Africa.
In the chapter on human origins in the East African history textbook, Ernst placed the origin of human beings in East Africa (in actual history, human fossils in East Africa were discovered in the late 20th century), and divided human beings into three branches, one of which went to West Africa, one heading to the Middle East and one heading to the coast.
Correspondingly, they are black people, Eurasians, and brown people.
Eurasians are subdivided into three smaller branches: one is the Mediterranean race (Romans and Arabs), with black hair and black eyes; the East Asian race, with black hair and black eyes; and the Nordic race, with blond hair and blue eyes.
The explanation for skin color is that according to latitude, generally the higher the latitude, the whiter the skin color, so different skin colors are caused by environmental changes.
The explanation for why Nordic people are blond and blue-eyed is caused by genetic variation. The argument is that people in other parts of the world have black hair and black eyes, while Nordic people have various hair and pupil colors and are unstable (brown, Gold, red...)
Another interesting aspect of this fabricated human origin is that the brown race is listed separately and descriptively spread by picking up sea food and fishing at the beach. Therefore, Indians, Indonesians, and natives of Oceania... are all regarded as Ernst put in brown people.
Black people, needless to say, live in low latitudes, with strong sunlight, and are always naked. After tens of thousands of years of precipitation, they have become what they are today.
If this set of theories were spread back to Europe, Ernst would definitely become the target of verbal criticism from white leftists in Europe. Unfortunately, this is East Africa. Ernst’s words are in the hall. The only person qualified to criticize Ernst is Maximiliano I. .
However, Maximilian I recognized the teaching materials compiled by Ernst very much, because when he became the emperor of Mexico, there were many Indians under his rule. As a monarch, although he did not know where Ernst got his fallacies, But Maximilian I believed that Ernst was doing the right thing.
Classifying all races into one big family, and adopting some of Darwin's theories, can eliminate the conflicts between the various ethnic groups in East Africa. It was said before that in the future, the worldview of these children who will study East African textbooks will be recast when they grow up. .
Of course, this set of textbooks also magnified Ernst’s own stain. Since you don’t admit that black natives are an inferior race, then you are so cruel to these black natives. Isn’t this just plain bad!
Logically, this was indeed the case, but Ernst didn't care at all. He was just bearing the infamy of a colonizer and invader.
Throughout human history, as long as the same people are victors, there will always be people who will commemorate them, such as the great emperors of Russia and Emperor Qin and Han Wu of the Far East. Who is not such a person? This nation will remember their contribution to the nation.
In the future, as long as the continuation of East Africa as a civilization as a whole is ensured, those in future generations will remember Ernst's achievements, even if this achievement is based on the history of blood and tears of the indigenous people.
Therefore, shaping the overall national cultural identity of East Africa is the only card Ernst can play, and it is also the theoretical basis for the future Hechingen royal family to rule East Africa.
Just like religion, there is a concept of conversion, Ernst planned to engage in cultural conversion and promote German culture in East Africa.
In East African education and propaganda, Germany is no longer the exclusive preserve of the Germans, but all people who are willing to live the German way of life and accept the influence of German cultural education.
This turned narrow national Germany into civilized Germany. Germany in East Africa was not a nation, but a civilization.
For the German immigrants in East Africa, it didn't matter as long as the culture in East Africa was still mainly German.
For other immigrants from non-traditional German ethnic groups, this provides a theoretical basis for integrating into East African life. I am a person who accepts and identifies with German culture, so I am theoretically a German.
To implement this theory, it is necessary to achieve equality in terms of identity of all races, even indigenous people.
Although Ernst persecuted black indigenous people, he admitted that black people were the same as other races and had no differences in intelligence and other aspects.
This is knowingly committing a crime, and the Western colonists were more moral than Ernst in this regard, because they believed that black people were an inferior race, so they found excuses for their crimes. This basically meant that they were not the same species as themselves. Yes, at most they look somewhat similar.
In comparison, Ernst did it deliberately, simply for his own benefit by driving away the black natives, forcing them to perform manual labor, and indirectly participating in trafficking, without any acting.
Just like criminals, some criminals do not think that they are committing a crime, but Ernst is the kind of person who continues to commit a crime even though he knows it.