<story><title>Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/born-babylon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbj1968</author><text>I would encourage any of the overly comfortable users of this site to spend five minutes in the company of a Rastafarian.  Not your weed dealer that’s wearing a Bob Marley shirt.  I guarantee your attitudes towards the peacefulness of that movement will change very quickly.  They are seen as unwelcome influence in much of the Caribbean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasjani</author><text>While I do agree with you to the certain degree - I&amp;#x27;d add a side note that the movement does not share a single dogma nor there&amp;#x27;s a body that could lay down one. Rastafari as a movement is splintered into smaller sects (or houses or mansions as they are references within the movement)  - each one holding varying views of what ever topic at hand. And as you pointed out some of them are not very friendly - that&amp;#x27;s always the case when fundamentalism enters the picture.&lt;p&gt;But that said, I would personally argue that statement that the &amp;quot;whole movement&amp;quot; or every &amp;quot;rasfafari&amp;quot; falls into your assumption is 100% not true. On comparison - If I&amp;#x27;d point out that every christian in States is fundamental lunatic there would be people wanting to lynch me.&lt;p&gt;And just to point out; this is purely anecdata on my own behalf. I&amp;#x27;ve been in contact with various people &amp;#x2F; mansions for past 33 years and i am &amp;quot;officially&amp;quot; part one of the biggest &amp;#x2F; global houses but i dont really go under that banner anymore because of the fundamental views of some people within those circles make me sick.  But its still not the whole movement.</text></comment>
<story><title>Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/born-babylon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbj1968</author><text>I would encourage any of the overly comfortable users of this site to spend five minutes in the company of a Rastafarian.  Not your weed dealer that’s wearing a Bob Marley shirt.  I guarantee your attitudes towards the peacefulness of that movement will change very quickly.  They are seen as unwelcome influence in much of the Caribbean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nroets</author><text>Also ask them who the indigenous people of Southern Africa are. They will never acknowledge that it&amp;#x27;s the Khoisan and that the Bantu are colonizers.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Khoisan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Khoisan&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>