บท 168: History of Muwin
<Author's note: I didn't know how to properly introduce this load of information in the story so I decided to make an exclusive chapter for it. This information would be vital in understanding the conflict and racism in the upcoming chapters. Thank you for your understanding.>
In brown-skinned Asian countries, the definition of racism is a bit different compared to the rest of the world.
Take for example Caucasian countries. The racism there is MOSTLY based on a person's ethnicity which is why one will see things like white pride, black pride, Asian pride, etc. There's even hyphenated nationalities like Womanian-Muwinian, Regisian-Muwinian, and etc.
Meanwhile, in brown-skinned Asian countries, racism is MOSTLY based on economic status or religion, or both. Although they also have terms like Muwinian-Xudonian, Muwinian-Womanian, etc., the average people there don't use these terms nor do they even think about it. To them, you're either a foreigner or a local -- nothing more, nothing less.
And the way they differentiate between a local and a foreigner is MOSTLY by language and accent.
The reason behind this is history.
2.4 million years ago during the ice age period, humans left Africa and migrated all over the world.
When the ice age period ended and around 4,000 years ago, white-skinned Asians (mostly Xudonians) and some brown-Caucasians began traveling around Asia via boats and discovered the "would-be" brown-skinned Asians countries that the world knows today.
They are referred to as "would-be" because at the time these places were not countries and were nothing more than a group of islands inhabited by the natives who were short dark-skinned people living a nomadic lifestyle. Some of these islands didn't even have any humans living there..
The Xudonians and brown-Caucasians who came there not only established fair business relationships (at least most of the time) with the natives of the land but also built communities, shared their culture and inter-bred with them.
One of things they shared was religion -- Iklas and Renasitur.
The natives, of course, also had their own religion but it was more like paganism or shamanism.
And then around the 16th century, this is when the Caucasians came and it was unlike anything that the world has seen.
Unlike the white-skinned Asians and brown-Caucasians who came before them and assimilated with the natives, the Caucasians came with the main purpose of colonizing them.
And aside from Asia, they also colonized Africa and many brown-Caucasian countries.
Furthermore, instead of establishing a fair business relationship with the countries they colonized, it was a very one-side one -- 80/20 in favor of the Caucasians. So all of the resources (gold, spices, food, slaves, etc.) around the world were concentrated in Caucasian countries.
This led to many people in the colonies to starve and forced them to find other sources of food which led to the birth of "exotic" dishes -- dogs, bats, insects, and many more unconventional delicacies.
And thanks to this long history, brown-skinned Asian countries today have 5 identifiable ethnic groups:
• Natives (a.k.a. aboriginals)
• Natives mixed with white-skinned Asian blood
• Natives mixed with brown-Caucasian blood
• Natives mixed with Caucasian blood
• Hybrids -- this group is a combination of 2, 3 or 4 of the ethnic groups previously mentioned. And the most common combination are natives mixed with white-skinned Asian blood or with brown-Caucasian blood.
And in Nathan's case in Muwin, he is part of the "hybrid" group and they dominate the entire country.
So in brown-skinned Asian countries, identifying a person's nationality based on skin isn't really reliable so they mostly differentiate foreigners and locals based on language and accent.
And before one would think that this type of racism is "better" because they're not looking at a person's skin, think again, because they're very, very strict with it. Not only one must have a full-grasp of the language, they also must speak in a native-level accent because the locals can they tell right away when a person is faking an accent or not.
As a matter of fact, they even have this term "fake-foreigner" for people who are technically Muwinians but doesn't have the full grasp of the language or doesn't have a native-level accent, or both.
But if Nathan was born and raised in such a diverse environment, why was he surprised to see the different types of non-Asian people when he first arrived at Womania?
First of all, full-bred aboriginals aren't commonly seen in brown-skinned Asian cities. One would have to go to the province or in very rural areas to see them. And plus, there are some obvious differences between a full-bred aboriginal and a full-bred African.
Secondly, there is also a huge difference between a half or mixed-breed and a full-bred Caucasian, brown-Caucasian, white-skinned Asian and African.
Thirdly, despite brown-skinned Asian countries having such a diverse population, there is still an imbalance of ethnic group representation within its population.
Take for example Muwin. In the north, the majority of people there have aboriginal, Xudonian and a little Regisian blood in them. Meanwhile, in the south, most of the people there have a combination of aboriginal and Xudonian blood in them.
And lastly, there's colonialism. Even until today, former colonies are still dealing with some issues from that bygone era along with new issues that arose in post-colonialism.
Speaking of colonialism, in the case of how Regis conquered Muwin, the Regisians first landed on the shores of the northern region of Muwin 300 years ago.
They were able to conquer the entire northern region within 5 years. However, expanding down to the south was a different story.
The thing about brown-skinned Asian countries, a lot of them have the worst land formation in the world.
They have a tropical climate, many of their lands consists of mountains and volcanoes covered with thick jungles inhabited by dangerous animals and insects, and some of their lands are separated by sea.
Thanks to these features, these countries are easy to invade but hard to control which makes them a perfect breeding ground for separatist groups.
When the Regisian colonizers were trying to conquer the southern region of Muwin, it was a huge headache for them because the natives would either just escape to the seas or deep into the jungle and would hide there for days, weeks and sometimes even months to regroup before attacking the bases the Regisians built.
The colonizers tried many things to conquer the southern region.
Regarding the natives who were hiding in the jungle, one of the things the colonizers did was sending out their own troops to hunt down the natives hiding in the jungle. But it only ended up failure because they weren't used to jungle warfare compared to the natives.
Another thing they tried was to use North and South Muwinians against the South Muwinian rebels. But before using them, they converted the Muwinians under their rule into the Trinitian believers to solidify their hold on them.
In the end, although the didn't fully conquer the southern region of Muwin, the country still ended up under the rule of Regis for 250 years.
And after 250 years of colonization, Regis finally granted Muwin its independence.
But right after the country finally gained it's independence, its people immediately came across an issue.
It was the matter of where will the ruling government of the country be located.
When it comes to economic progress, the northern region was way ahead because that was where their Regisian overlords established their main base during their rule in Muwin.
But in the eyes of the south Muwinians, the north Muwinians were weak people who got conquered and bowed down to the Regisians. And despite the country finally being free, they viewed the newly established government there at the north as nothing but a puppet of state of Regis and therefore don't want to have any part of it.
It also didn't help that the first prime minister of Muwin was a half-Muwinian half-Regisian man who grew up and studied in Regis so his accent was definitely that of a Regisian native.
This disagreement eventually led to a few civil wars in the first 30 years within the 50 years since Muwin gained its independence.
Fast-forward to the present, although the relationship between the two regions became stable, the country didn't end up getting divided and the north was unanimously chosen as the location for the ruling government, there were still some tensions between the two regions and a few Muwinian-Iklasian separatist groups who still dreams to divide the country.
Of course, Muwin wasn't the only brown-skinned Asian country that underwent civil wars after gaining independence and stabilized.
As a matter of fact, 90% of all former colonies went through some sort of civil war and stabilized while the remaining 10% either are still in the process or have completely thrown away their culture and fully embraced a Western or Caucasian ideology.
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