And the Christians in Ambon fear not just similar pogroms but an even greater influx of Muslim immigrants, in addition to those who have arrived in recent years, leaving them a powerless minority.There is resentment against the domination of trade by the incomers, a common complaint in parts of Indonesia that have received lots of migrants.
Though this report gives voice to the resentments of powerless individuals, it shouldn't blind us to the fact that racism is at its most damaging when institutions are at fault.
But these sequences also contain an authentic anger and aggression, their unfettered extremes reflecting the pent-up resentment of a powerless child.
"I suppose the anger is the petty resentment of the powerless: If I have to suffer my tiny apartment which I can barely afford because of my crap job, why shouldn't this jerk?" Strangely, one of the only prominent voices to take pity on Rotondo was right-wing conspiracy maven Alex Jones, who ranted incoherently to him about globalism, but at least gave him $3,000 as a parting gift.
My son, for nearly seven years has been forced to call his stepmom, "mom". I have been powerless to stop it, however, I have watched as resentment toward her has built up and up.
In Guinea, writes Mr French, "there was mounting resentment over the way China was seen to be…despoiling the environment, dispossessing powerless landholders or flouting local laws, fuelling corruption, and, most of all, empowering awful governments".
In either case, holding onto resentment about what has happened only keeps us stuck in the past where we are powerless to create anything new in the present.
Even if you were deceived and put at risk without your consent, holding onto the anger and resentment not only aggravates your health but also binds you psychologically to a negative event which you are powerless to change.
Resentment.... Embarrassment.
Britain looked on, powerless.
