Venu's Thoughts Series

Venu's Thoughts Series: WHITE IS NOT A COLOR?                                 ( White vs. Colored TERMINOLOGY) This thought struck me a long time ago - probably when I first came to the U.S. and started hearing discussions of 'colored-ness' of people.  I have to finally get it out! I'd like to point this out to everyone(and especially to everyone in the U.S. and Europe), to people of all races/ethnicities:                             ****** Folks, WHITE IS A COLOR !! ****** So can we please STOP DIVIDING THE WORLD INTO AN INVALID AND INCORRECT TWO-WAY BINARY SPLIT (1: colored 0: non-colored).   'White' people are colored people too - the color just happens to be white (or m...

Venu's Thoughts Series: TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY (Kudos to U.K.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The concept of territorial integrity is much brandied about (when it is convenient for the speaker). I propose that this concept is utter hogwash ! The concept basically says that previously established borders of a country must remain so.  Note that in most cases, these are borders established by some foreign power for their own convenience - in many cases, borders established by some colonial power without regard to the diverse cultures within these borders. Recently citizens of Scotland went to the polls to hold a referendum on whether to break away from U.K.   This, to me, is a model that the whole earth should follow .  No world leaders cried foul saying it is a violation of the 'territorial integrity' of U.K.  Kudos to citizens of U.K. for allowing this referendum to proceed peacefully and accepting its res...