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

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.

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