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Feedback on Sigfrido Vazquez's lecture

Without realising it, Eurocentrism has been with us all our lives. Since we were
children, we have learned that Europe has always been the strongest and that the other
continents have progressed thanks to it.

Sigfrido Vázquez Cienfuegos explains that this is not the case. As European citizens,
whether we like it or not, we have our racist side. Some people are more racist, some people
are less, but even if we do it unintentionally, we sometimes interpret facts in a racist way.

As you said, nobody doubts that the Parthenon, the Colosseum, the Duomo and so
on are Western cultures, while those on other continents can be thought of as originating
from extraterrestrials.

Although these are logically false concepts, they are repeated so often that they
eventually become a truth. For this very reason, after giving arguments from different people
who analyse paranormal phenomena in history and much more, the aim is to analyse what is
behind the idea that it was aliens that allowed the development of non-European civilisations
(based on xenophobia and racism).

My opinion on this is quite clear. We all have our racist side, especially Europeans
(but non-Europeans can also be racist). We have been taught that America, Asia and Africa
were developed and discovered by Europeans, when this is not the case. Therefore, the way
we teach the new generations should start to change little by little, so that we do not remain
in a society with a "hidden racism".

Also, on the subject of aliens, as I have commented before on the sites that are in
Europe and those that are not, it is quite a coincidence that these alien conspiracy theories
are about monuments placed outside of Europe. It's a very, very interesting topic, but from
there to inventing theories like for example, the pyramids in Egypt, that aliens built them... it's
too much.

IKER SANTAMARÍA CASADO

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