Re: racist vs racialist?

>I've never heard of that before. I've also heard that when they first
>saw white people (I think we're talking about the Dutch explorers who
>landed in what was to become Western Australia), they decided they were
>ghosts. Which leads me to wonder: what is it about ghosts that (a)
>they're always pale and (b) even cultures as diverse as Australian
>Indigenous and European have them?
Pale is certainly universal, since human dead body tends to turn more pale than a
live one. And since most people are concerned anout what may happen to them
after death, it is not suprising that most culutres have some kind of gost,
even thought they are not exactly identical every where. but i believe every
culture has some legend about creatures more or less similar to gosts, zombies,
vampires and the like, though the cathegories might be split differently.