Re: (Free Tibet) Why Tibet??

In soc.culture.hongkong Sigmund I. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: And so what? Who is sugarcoating? *I* should be eyerolling here:
: - were native american cultures steamrolled?  yes X    no O
: - can *you* help feeling simpathy for them?   yes X    no O
: - is there room for them in the modern world? yes O    no X


Why do you say there's nmo room for them in the modern world? NATIVE 
AMERICANS ARE STILL HERE, and some of their culture is preserved and part 
of modern consciousness. NO culture can stay "asi ti was", look at 
Europeans, for God's sake. This is what I am talking about -- you've 
bought into the "disappearing Indian" stereotype, and that's just as bad 
as disliking them. 

: That's all I have said. I know that they were belligerant. And feel 
: simpathy all the same. So do you.

You may feel sympathy (thought I'd correct the spelling there) but you're 
feeling it based on a misconcpetion of what the society then and now. 


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Pilar