Re: (Free Tibet) Why Tibet??

Pilar Quezzaire wrote:
> 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. 

Thank you for the spellcheck.
A misconception is to call a group of some '00.000 people living off 
federal subventions "a culture": that's an open air museum.

> --
> Pilar