Discourse on Colonialism

Aime Cesaire wrote Discourse On Colonialism in 1955. Cesaire takes a risky stance arguing against colonization and the by-products thats come along with it. Cesaire blames the poor relationship amongst colonizers and colonies on Europe. Europe does nothing more than colonize smaller nations and colonies to exploit them namely for financial purposes and also for their natural resources. Europe created two problems in Cesaire's words the Proletariat Problem and the Colony Problem. The Colonial problem is one rooted with diseased society, that there is no positive relationship. The largest problem in Colonization is that colonies are not advances once colonized. Furthermore the issue pertains around the fact the relationship is centered around, "forced labor, intimidation, pressure, the police, taxation, theft, rape, compulsory crops, contempt, mistrust, arrogance, self-complacency, swinishness, brainless elites, degraded masses." All of which problems are sure to set the local culture back a few steps.

The last remaining problem is the Proletariat Problem. This problem exist due to the racial nature of forced labor and colonization. With the racial nature slavery can be connected and compared with Colonization. Thus Cesaire concludes that colonization is a form of dehumanization. Europe has a fascination with dehumanizing minorities especially blacks in Cesaire's opinion. Cesaire writes in a unique perspective and uses the example of Hitler and the Jews and compares that with Europe and Colonization. In conclusion it was an interesting read with many important points brought to the forefront.

57% Irish

57% Irish is the story of a man who has been given the responsibilty of developing a test.  However, this is not just a simple test, this is a test to determine how "Irish" someone is. This test is to be used to determine who is Irish enough to stay, and who must be forced to leave.  This test is made up of many different components, and it measures how one responds to certain things that they are seeing.  The way they respond, according to the main charcater's original hypothesis, determines how Irish they are. 
The reason this story is called 57% Irish is because when the main character gave the test to a native Irishman, the man scored 57%. However, when the test was given to someone that was not of Irish decent, they scored a lot higher, which asked the question, is the test really legitimate, and can it be trusted? 
In the middle of this story of the test, there is a sub plot between the main character and his Russian girlfriend.  The main character has a child with his girlfriend which forces him to ponder the question, is the child Irish or not?  When it is determined that the child will most likely have to leave the country if its mom is found not to be "Irish" enough, the main character decides to take the child's fate into his own hands.  He ends up changing the test so his girlfriend, and more importantly their child, can stay in the country. 
So my main question that I have is this:

Do you believe the "Irish Test" was a good indicator of how "Irish" someone was, and whether they should be able to remain in the country or not?
If you do belive it was, how do you explain the foreigner getting a better score than the native Irishman?