En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
> > There's something fishy going on here. The fact that the article Padraic
> > gave said that most pica was found in non-Western cultures should have been
> > a clue. It seems that pica means more exactly "the eating of substances we
> > Westerners don't find acceptable" :))) .
>
>While that's an perfectly possible interpretation, I'd like to point out that
>most cultures are "non-Western", and that something occurs primarily in non-
>Western cultures really means little more than that is unusual in Western
>cultures.
That was basically the point of my post you know?
>Now, I'm not really suspecting Christophe of this, but the tendency to
>think of
>all non-Western cultures as essentially the same is not appreciably less
>common
>in the intercultural exchanage and understanding brigade than among Western
>supremacists.
Where in my post did you ever get the idea to mention that? My whole post
was pointing out that opposing Western and non-Western was a stupid idea
anyway. I just used the terms of the article we were discussing about,
nothing else.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.