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BradS
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| This is kind of like opening Pandora's Box this this discussion, isn't it? |
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Lynn
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: in between
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| GeminiTiger wrote: |
native peoples across the
world have been destroyed by European culture and politics, some
thing about killing a people's poupulation, taking the best land from
them and then enculturating them into a distorted, hypocritcal value
stytem does that to people. |
So True, GeminiTiger, so true. |
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TokyoLiz
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| That comment about avoiding aboriginals... that's not racism, but some good advice. Don't get me wrong, there are some great native Australians but (especially in Sydney) the majority of them are below the poverty line, drunk and yes, criminals. Have you walked around Central Station lately or Surry Hills? You don't get scared out of racial fear, but of common sense. |
Is rather sad. Sure, people make choices, sometimes bad, sometimes heroic, in their lives. However, when an entire people has been subjugated and their culture systematically taken apart, people have fewer choices to make about how they're going to live their lives.
We see the same thing in Canada with our First Nations people who were also victimized by church, state and the majority population at large.
On the bright side, the First Nations people I've met in the EFL/ESL industry, visitors and workers in Japan, are really cool. But they probably had more doors open to them than some.
Who says that warrior spirit is the preserve of the Japanese, anyway? Lots of cultures have living values that come from warrior spirit. The First Nations people of Canada, for example. Or Scottish people like the late Donald Dewar. |
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