The Seychelles a tiny country made up of not more them 86,000 population with a incredible economic zone spanning 1.2 million square kilometers is facing an unprecedented assault on its people, it's heritage , culture via Cultural Terrorism.
What Is Cultural Terrorism
Cultural Terrorism is a phenomena that takes place when foreigners that live in a country do not respect the culture, national heritage and history of a people. The intent is generally focused on the cultural terrorist attempting to impose his or her presence in a country and subjugate a people, reducing them to second or in rare instances third class citizens in their own country.
The other side of this coin of Cultural Terrorist is that they super impose themselves, their culture and their heritage over the host country culture, heritage, and worse, it's people.
Respect For History
We must salute Minister St. Ange effort to show recognition of those Seychellois pioneers in Tourism. These forgotten women and men, were true Seychellois who were very resourceful and very hard working. They came and emerged from a very closed and isolated Seychelles.
Before the international airport, access to Seychelles was limited to the occasional ship steamer from Kenya- Mombasa ( Jomo Kenyatta led the road to Independence with his call: " Kenya Is For Kenyans"- thousands of Seychellois working in Kenya, high tailed it back to Seychelles in 1961 including my family) and Colombo- Ceylon, now Sri Lanka ( home of the sangha- lese people).
With The Airport Our Country- Life Became Complex
The early pioneers of Tourism were a aloof group, visionaries, who one day hope to share the beauty of Seychelles with the World. Did they envision that Tourism in Seychelles would go beyond a few Colonels of the British Empire? Did they envision 16 flights day carrying near One Thousand visitors to Seychelles per day? Surely, they did not envision direct flights from Beijing, Peking back in those days.
The airport changed the demand spectrum for the Seychelles. With the airport, Seychelles became a place of interest to the rich and famous, common travelers, and yes, many opportunists who will want to carve out their piece of paradise right here and impose their persona on our country and even our people. They will use Cultural Terrorism to imprint their presence in our national DNA .
Vijay Arrives By Flight
Vijay Patel translated into American English, I believe it means "John Potato" arrived in Seychelles under work permit as a Civil Engineer task with building the Mahe Beach Hotel. Under the one party state, John Potato made a transition from staff worker of a company to independent contractor.
In 1990, he secured a nice position on Providence Industrial estate, reserved for Seychellois who need land to expand their businesses. Keeping close ties to the powers that be, Vijay won numerous contracts including Unity Stadium at the time worth SCR 80 million. In no time, Vijay was being awarded contracts to build everything and any thing. In Praslin, he built Raffles hotels and few secondary roads. Today he enjoys a large plot on Eve Island with virtually no money paid, in spite of now being a Billionaire, and in spite of being able to buy his own land.
Vijay Name On National Monuments
In no time after the Raffles Hotel was completed, Vijay who told me once he is does not consider himself to be a Seychellois ( in spite of being naturalized under one party state) embarked on the placement of his name on the signs of each and everyone of our National Heritage Cultural Site signs. His name has been embossed in concrete at the bottom of the sign, as if the cultural heritage sites of Praslin, an island deeply sensitive, to people trying to walk over our history and our people.
Vijay did not pay for these signs. Raffles paid for them as a settlement for destruction to the environment in the area, where the hotel is built. Vijay was only ask to build the signs. Between managers at Raffles, Vijay snaked his name to the signs in an overt attack of cultural terrorism upon our national heritage.
While some say this is not a big deal, I say it is. Our National heritage is what identifies us all as one people with a common past. Our national heritage is our only gift of Seychelles we hand over to our children. It is what makes us unique.
Government of Seychelles and all Seychellois must draw a line on Cultural terrorism.
As we sensitize people about preserving our culture, perhaps someone responsible in government can call Mr. Patel - Mr. Potato in English, ask him to remove the signs, remove his name on them, then place the signs back where they belong.
Your name belongs on your trucks not on our national heritage monuments, which you had nothing to do with, your entire life.
In case you did not know, in our culture, money is not relevant to your standing in society, since we all slept with the same women and vice versa, men.
Mr. Potato has had it wrong all along. Placing your name even on 50 ton trucks will not garner you any more respect then when you first placed your name on that little Ford, you bought from Hunt Deltel.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
May God Bless All Freedom loving Seychellois!
11 comments:
The cultural terrorism is a premediated crooked act by pl and india to destroy seychellois culture,tradition,and identity a nation to replace it by an indian community....
Instead of seeing christian religious proccessions ,we see i.dian expats hindu procesdions on our streets and adverzised by pl medias as if itvis a national seychrllois religous normal celebrationd..Hindu temple built bigger and higher zhan churches.....though seychellois who have hindu faith arr a handful of people,not more than 100 persons....pl evrn wants to make ud believe thr hindu proccesion is legitimate,historical,traditional and part of seychelloid nation.
We see ondiand everywhere embedded in our indzitutiond,as if it is nuormal that the institutions of a sovereign country is controled by foreigners.
Indians like Vijay,have bern given by pl,te total control of our economy,,.
INDIANS have objective in seychelles,drspose seychrllois to make it a little india.....they almost made it in Fiji,but angry native military patriot used force by conducting a coup before a indian was about to be elected President of fiji with the over number of indians who colonized fiji,i inthe same way as zhey trying to do in seychelles by Vijay,Ramaboss,siva rtc..and indianvgovrtnment.
The cultural terrorism being perpetratedby vijay and co,is a policy concocted by indian government withvpl thugs.For instance,every year pl goes film indians at indian consulate raising indian flag of our soil as symbol of indian colonilism objective.
We heard Sri lankans on SBC,telling they want to promote their culture in seychelles as if seycheles is,party of sri lanka.......in fact,whrn any person travel or go work or live in a foreign country,what one does is not promote and try to impose his culture on otherd,but learn aboutvthe host country culture,tradition....it is called...INTEGRATION...in seychelles under thugs,it is thr contary,,,foreigners are encourage by state not to learn seycheles culture,but impose their culture on us.
Suddenly,we hearing from hindu comunity,orthodox community,arab community etc... foreigners staying herr,most of zhe time none are married with seychelois,but holding seychellois passports.
Those indians have a colonize ambition in deychelles,,,,,unlike others foreign expats be it African,other asians comunity,they are the only one eho zhink they have a legitimatr tight,to dance on our streets on hindu proccession,make special celebration for them,,the so callrd Indian/srxchelles crlrbration ,thry use to promote thrmselves and colonialvambition.
Indians are by nature separatists......for instancr,,they do not have genuine contact eith seychelloid,try live or try to built there on little state within a state,.......and such behaviors are those which creatr ethnical conflicts as wr see on india,si lanka...we can not allow those indians to impose their culture on us... thus this annual illrgal hindu rxpats religious proccession must stop.
Pl thugs try to del us this ilrgal hindu proccession as attraction for tourists ..well pl,tourists come to seychelled to enjoy seychellois culture,not a fake imported culture that has nothing to do with us... .... If tourists want to see and ebjoy indian hindu culture they go to ondia not coming to seychelles.
We see indianslikr vjay playing Pere Horeau,,,,,charity to schools,etc .for thr take seychellois for casts,poor that ondians must take care of.....whilr milionsif not bilions of indians live on one dolar per month.
We must clean our land from those pests like vijay.......we.must dtop zhrm from coloniuing out land in order to modify our culture and madevit hindu.......and thatvis ehy therr must be qouta on expat number in our and it must no exceed more than 10 000 anytime.and ensure that expats like vjay leave our shore once their contract ended.
The cultural terrorist like Vijay,khalifa,who want their names on all buldings in seychrlles,are the weapons use to inflict their views on others. ..it the crooked policy of attacking or suppressing cultural values or destroying cultural treasures.
The comapaign od cultural terrorism is sweeping under pl thuggist government.Taking advantage of zhis crooked pl regime inplace and economic hardship,zhis Indian campaign in the cradle of covilizstion is slowly eradicazing our seychelois heritage.
Illegal expat hindu religious proccession is an attack on out religious heritage.
The systematic attack on our cultural properzies,heitage wizh the intent to eradicate a culturr,must be a concern for all..it is seychelois existence as a nation at stake..
Culture is zhat complex whole~~which is a potpouri of language,ldeas,beliefs,customs,rituals,folktales,values,habits,ceremonies etc.....Destroying zhebimprintscof history,culzure,belief,tradition,like pl and indians are doing,,is CULTURAL TERRORISM.....and seychellois can and must stop it... and the starting point to stop Vijays,khalifa and other foreigners from destrying our culturre,,,let us starts by dealing with rot of the problem that allow such teroristblike vijay ,khalifa to florish..namely this pl thuggish government....
Be au rendez vous,in mass in December to nake sure pl is topple once and forvall..without getting pl out,cultural terrorism wizh floridh,,,and crooks like vijay would drstroy us.
And Gardon,a belgium national ,had the guts to tells ,Chris to stoo writting on Vijay........ ... who the hell u think u are to dictates ur will on a seycellois in his homeland.....Seychellous are not congolais,whio ur king slaved and murdered.......Sesel pou selsewa,those who feels that they cannot abide by seychellois rules are free to leave as they were free to come.
Becit Vijay,khalifa nd others,.
Nice article Mr. Gill .
You make us proud to be Seychellois.
Minister of culture should look into this. If it is true the signs should be remove.
Nice article Mr. Gill .
You make us proud to be Seychellois.
A careful exploration of the land and place~names is necessary in order to understand the history,culture,and language of a nation.When tracing back the roots of a nation,history and so forth,history of the language and All proper names play a,particularly import role........bring tovlight century of a nations history.In short,proper,names comprise the book of a nations past and history
Vijay ,ditoxto khalifa,names on national monuments,and building...is a sort of vandalism,it is cultural plagiarism.
This crook pratice must stop immediately,and these fake names on our monuments must desapeared as fast as possible.
Vijay, khalifa Actions is an act of vandalism of our heritage and culture...There mustz be no compromised in fighting terrorism,most of which is coming from indain ,and Arab soil.It must be opposed jointly by the Oppostion,minister of Culture and the People across seychelles.When cann ot allow thugs like Vijay,who is a fake seychellois,sow the seed of insanity into the seychellois culture.ultural teorrism is a celebration of thev power of individual,and the ai is to pollute the minds of the public,to to sow seed of insanity into our Society.Vijay acts is a cway of mocking seychellois customs ,beleifs,heritage,traditions etc.....
Pl has to stop him ,else we reservbe the rights to stop by other means.
Stop Vijay ,Khalifa vandalism Pl....and that immediately before seychellois get on their nerves....
Chris always exposed them in raw........If there would be as many Patriot as Chris.... ,Change would have Long find its way in seychelles.....
I expose Vijay in the manner he has been arrogant. I balanced his actions carefully and balanced the value of our national monuments and Heritage sites.
Vijay deserves nothing less them this article for his actions.
All we want is for Vijay to remove the little name plate he snaked with a little cement. Surely Vijay is big enough to do that.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
Christopher Gill
Mr. Gill can Seselwa go to India and do what Vijay did to us in Seychelles ?
No.
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