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Re: "defense of wilderness" (wasRe: lexicon)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, June 5, 2003, 3:07
J Y S Czhang scripsit:

> So much so that in these supposed modern times a psychology > experiment AFAIK that was conducted just a few years ago showed that > waaaay too many EuroAmericanized people tend to associate not only > the colour black with death, evil and other "bad things" but photos > of African-American faces (and other people of darker skin tones) > with these very things as well. And the reaaaally freaky thing is > that something like 30% of the African-Americans in this experiment > responded identically to the "Whites" - talk about some kinda subconscious > self-loathing!
I wouldn't bet on the reliability of that experiment. In Zulu (the speakers of which are mostly very dark) the idiom "black-hearted" has exactly the same meaning as in English. We fear the dark and are relieved by the coming of the light, no matter what our skin color is. -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com jcowan@reutershealth.com Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin