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Re: "Aryans" (was Re: query: distorted languages?)

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Friday, September 1, 2000, 6:15
At 9:35 pm -0400 31/8/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote: >> e.g. even Japanese got classified as Aryan! > >If I didn't know better, I'd've thought that was a joke! That is truly >bizarre. Did they classify them that way to justify their alliance with >them?
Presumably so. And Apartheid South Africa saw fit to classify the Japanese as "honorary whites" for purely commercial reasons - money talks.
>> If the results of racism were not so dire, one would find all this >> stupidity amusing. > >My sentiments exactly. Perhaps in a few centuries people will be able >to see it that way.
Sooner - I hope. ------------------------------------------------------------------- At 10:04 pm -0400 31/8/00, Jonathan Chang wrote: [...]
> TODAY MANY "RACES", TOMORROW ONE RACE!!
As far as I'm concerned there already has been only one race for millennia - it's called 'human'. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================