Re: OT Academia (was Re: Dr. Gunn)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 3:48 |
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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.