On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:46:41 GMT, timonjkl
wrote:

(Chuck) wrote in news:3f15d2c8.16628370
:

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:04:59 -0400, Mark
wrote:

Just because the Indians did it, it doesn't make it right
(or best, or preferable).

Ah, must be a feller who also doesn't eat (or drink) corn, spuds,
tomatoes, maple syrup, squash, chocolate, coffee, cranberries, turkey,
venison, pumpkin, jerky, use tobacco, believe in rotating crops,
irrigation, democracy, public works projects, women's rights, slavery
or taking scalps. There's the good, the bad and the ugly in every
culture...careful you don't paint with too broad a brush.



What do all these things have to do with each other?

[Note: I'm aware that coffee didn't originate here. My mistake, I
sometimes list it in with cocoa, for some inexplicable reason, as
originating here .]

Anyhow, like cooking on/in/with cedar, they are all aspects,
characteristics or products of various American Indian cultures
(North, Central and South American, of course), introduced to the
Euros..(well, the Euros knew about slavery, of course and had
forgotten what the Greeks taught them about democracy, but there are
bound to be some overlaps. )

Point is, while you may or may not agree with something a particular
culture does, doesn't necessarily make you "right", either,
"rightness" being utterly subjective in many cases. There may also be
things about said culture that you (generic "you") don't know, too.

(IOW, The implied swipe at using things of an Indian origin irked me a
bit.)


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