dykestroyerofnations:

I need you to understand that the fire that destroyed our National Museum isn’t a tragedy just for Brazil and Brazilians.

I need you to understand that the items in its collection weren’t important just for our national history. The museum contained the richest library on anthropology in our country. It contained the most ancient human remains found in our part of the world. It contained Egyptian mummies, Mesopotamian relics – and unlike many European museums, some of our items were not stolen as a result of colonization, but given (as the throne of Dahomey, for example).

This isn’t a Brazilian tragedy, it’s a global tragedy. Responsibility lies with Brazil and its incompetence, its ignorance, its complete lack of interest or respect for all that is intellectual, cultural, historical, scientific, yes; but the magnitude of this crime is much larger than our nation.