Chapter 111: On Image Civilization
The current population of East Africa (including indigenous peoples) is comparable to that of Britain's colony of Australia, but this population is not enough to fully develop East Africa.
Unlike British colonies such as Canada and Australia, it has the British Empire at its peak.
Therefore, although Canada and Australia have small populations, security is not a problem, especially Australia, which is surrounded by the sea and has no external enemies.
The East African colonies were backed by only Ernst and the Hechingen Consortium, which could not withstand the turmoil.
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 Ottoman Empire and the Far East, although they were forced to give up some interests when facing the great powers, with their considerable population and size, no one could swallow them all in one bite.
Of course, negative materials like India do 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 immigrants' sense of identity, assimilate and eliminate their unique culture, and finally form a set of cultural identity unique to East Africa.
If one were to adopt Western racial theories, it would surely sow the seeds of disaster, so even if they were black indigenous people, Ernst would not deny their intelligence.
When Ernst was compiling colonial textbooks, he described the black natives as being able to be transformed through education, but the influence of their history and culture made the cost of transformation extremely high.
Ernst did not say that blacks are inferior to other races, but blacks do not even know how to farm and are still at an extremely primitive stage. It will take hundreds of years for their ideas and concepts to be corrected.
And if the blacks are not expelled, where will the East African land come from for you immigrants to survive? So you must learn to be grateful, remember your identity as East African Germans, and give back to the motherland in the future.
It is better to be honest with each other 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 blame their ancestors for this.
As for racism, Ernst himself did not believe in it, and would not apply this theory in East Africa.
In the East African history textbook, in the chapter on human origins, Ernst set the origin of mankind in East Africa (in actual history, human fossils in East Africa were discovered in the late 20th century), and divided humans into three branches, one going to West Africa, one going to the Middle East, and one going to the coast.
Correspondingly, they are black people, Eurasians, and brown people.
Eurasians are further divided into three branches: 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 it is divided 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 have blond hair and blue eyes is that it is caused by genetic mutation. The argument is that people in other parts of the world have black hair and black eyes, while Nordic people have a variety of hair and eye colors that are unstable (brown, blond, red...)
Another interesting thing about this fabricated origin of mankind is that the brown race is listed separately and described as spreading by picking up sea cucumbers and fishing on the seashore. Therefore, Indians, Indonesians, Oceania natives... were all classified as brown by Ernst.
As for black people, there is no need to explain. They live at low latitudes, have strong sunlight, and are often naked all year round, so after tens of thousands of years, they have become what they are today.
If this theory were spread back to Europe, Ernst would definitely become the target of criticism from European white leftists. Unfortunately, this is East Africa, and Ernst has the final say. The only person qualified to criticize Ernst is Maximilian I.
However, Maximilian I highly recognized the textbooks compiled by Ernst, because when he was the emperor of Mexico, there were many Indians under his rule. As a monarch, although he did not know where Ernst got his twisted ideas, Maximilian I believed that Ernst did the right thing.
Classifying all races into one big family and adopting some of Darwin's theories can eliminate the conflicts among ethnic groups in East Africa. It was said before that the children who study East African textbooks in the future will have their worldview reshaped when they grow up.
Of course, this set of teaching materials also magnified Ernst’s own stains. Since you do not admit that the black natives are an inferior race, why are you so cruel to these black natives? Isn’t this simply evil?
Logically, this is true, but Ernst doesn't care at all. He just bears the stigma of being a colonizer and invader.
Throughout human history, those same people, as long as they are victors, will always be commemorated by someone, such as the great emperors of Russia, the Qin Shi Huang and Han Wudi of the Far East. They are all such people, and their nation will remember their contributions to the nation.
In the future, as long as East Africa continues as a civilization, future generations will remember Ernst's achievements, even if these achievements are based on the blood and tears of the indigenous people.
Therefore, shaping the overall national and 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, which has the concept of conversion, Ernst planned to carry out cultural conversion and promote German culture in East Africa.
In East African education and propaganda, Germany is no longer the exclusive domain of the Germanic people, but applies to all those who are willing to live a German lifestyle and receive German cultural education.
This transformed the narrow national Germany into civilized Germany. In East Africa, Germany is not a nation but a civilization.
For German immigrants in East Africa, it doesn’t matter as long as the culture of East Africa is still mainly German.
For other immigrants who are not traditional Germans, this provides a theoretical basis for their integration into East African life. I am a person who accepts and identifies with German culture, so theoretically I am a German.
In order to implement this theory, it is necessary to ensure equality of all ethnic identities, even the indigenous people.
Although Ernst persecuted black indigenous people, he admitted that black people were the same as other races and there was no difference in intelligence and other aspects.
This is knowingly committing a crime, and the Western colonists were much more moral than Ernst in this respect, because they believed that black people were an inferior race, so they found an excuse to justify their crimes. This basically meant that they were not of the same species as themselves, and at most they looked somewhat similar.
In comparison, Ernst acted intentionally, driving away the black natives and forcing them to do manual labor and indirectly participating in trafficking simply for his own benefit, and he doesn't even bother to act it out.
Just like criminals, some criminals do not think they are committing crimes, but Ernst is one of those who continues to commit crimes even though he knows he is committing crimes.
(End of this chapter)
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