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Re: OT Academia (was Re: Dr. Gunn)

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 3:48
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 13:39, Barry Garcia wrote:

> The Kiwi's are lucky they have a single native culture to pick a word to > refer to the white folk :). Here in the states i can imagine the ire > raised if one culture's word was used. All the more reactionary people > from other cultural groups would feel ignored :).
True, and a similar problem with the Aborigines. Although people often call all the Indigenous people of Australia 'Koorie' when trying to be politically correct, but the Koorie are just a group from South-Eastern Australia somewhere. Or a name for the entire culture in South-Eastern Australia, can't remember. The only thing I know about their names for White people is that the first time they saw white people, they thought we were ghosts. Although I would've thought ghosts be dark-skinned if they were the ghosts of Aborigines. Tristan.