05-30-2008, 07:40 PM
[quote Paul F.]Yes.. that was more or less my point.
Perhaps I used too few words for you?
Now that you've expounded at length, do you feel superior?
LOL
no no, if I'd expounded "at length" it would have been at least seven more paragraphs, that was a short one!
Not meant as a direct challenge to you, Paul, but to the drift of what you and others were suggesting, yes. But I also included your point in mine, instead of being fully contrary to it. The main difference was, I was defending the possibility that they might, in fact, BE ignorant savages. Maybe they're dying to leave their fig leaves behind, get some pants and shoes, get ON that airplane, not chase it away!
In the Australian case, right-thinking policy makers instituted a "Sorry Day" to apologize to befuddled Aboriginals, for contaminating their special native culture with white civilization. Including trying to restore Aboriginal children to their original families, to be raised exclusively within the tribe, forbidding the practice of adoption by white people, in a misguided effort to preserve their indigenous identity. As it turns out, many of them actually want their offspring to be adopted into the mainstream, to have better opportunities than they did.
These tribe members might be throwing pointy sticks in the air, trying to bring down that airplane because they want to see it up close, and maybe go for a ride in one!
Or...at least it's an alternative to imagining that they're trying to chase away the big Satan Dragon Bird. Maybe they're yelling "wait, come back!" or "drop some of those roasted peanuts!"
Perhaps I used too few words for you?
Now that you've expounded at length, do you feel superior?
LOL
no no, if I'd expounded "at length" it would have been at least seven more paragraphs, that was a short one!
Not meant as a direct challenge to you, Paul, but to the drift of what you and others were suggesting, yes. But I also included your point in mine, instead of being fully contrary to it. The main difference was, I was defending the possibility that they might, in fact, BE ignorant savages. Maybe they're dying to leave their fig leaves behind, get some pants and shoes, get ON that airplane, not chase it away!
In the Australian case, right-thinking policy makers instituted a "Sorry Day" to apologize to befuddled Aboriginals, for contaminating their special native culture with white civilization. Including trying to restore Aboriginal children to their original families, to be raised exclusively within the tribe, forbidding the practice of adoption by white people, in a misguided effort to preserve their indigenous identity. As it turns out, many of them actually want their offspring to be adopted into the mainstream, to have better opportunities than they did.
These tribe members might be throwing pointy sticks in the air, trying to bring down that airplane because they want to see it up close, and maybe go for a ride in one!
Or...at least it's an alternative to imagining that they're trying to chase away the big Satan Dragon Bird. Maybe they're yelling "wait, come back!" or "drop some of those roasted peanuts!"