TRADITIONAL MYTHS

 

Traditional myths about black people:

- God had created blacks to do the hard tasks. White men were not able to cultivate rice because under such horrible weather conditions he would have died.

- Mixed relationships evaluation depended on its origin; White man could have them with black women but white women could not with black men.

- At the end of 19C they refashioned the "Manifest of Destiny" which not only justifies the inferiority o colour races, but the right of whites to intrude into these cultures.

- The myth of the "Happy lucky man" Blacks were biologically generous, submissive and kind.

- "The cultural justification" Blacks are barbarians and slavery meant civilisation.