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- From: hrmeyer@ucselx.sdsu.edu (meyer h)
- Newsgroups: alt.native,news.groups,soc.culture.misc
- Subject: Re: Comments on the 2nd RFD: soc.culture.native
- Summary: not too narrow, please
- Keywords: charter
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.194642.1477@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:46:42 GMT
- References: <C1655K.70w@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <C16HLL.JL3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan21.043847.27553@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
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- I think it would be a major mistake to exclude groups which already have a
- newsgroup. Followed to it's logical conclusion, this would outlaw posts
- from inhabitants of the USA and Canada, on the grounds that such should be
- part of soc.culture.usa and soc.culture.canada . If you're bent on
- eliminating all redundancy, all posts by women or which speak of women's
- issues should be in soc.women . I expect the result of such would be to
- make it easier for the dominant cultures to "divide and rule."
-
- Defining native narrowly in the charter will not prevent a malicious person
- of any culture from posting insults, and will likely even increase such, as
- it would stir up more traffic if people dig up and argue about the charter
- each time it happens.
-
- The question I ask myself when I read a post is not "Is this person a
- native?" but "Does this make sense to me?" I recognize that different people
- will find different posts meaningful, as we need things near enough to the
- way we think to have meaning, but different enough to show us a new viewpoint.
-
- My approach would be not to try to define who is a native, but to give a
- broad definition of the cultural issues we seek to address (issues of concern
- to members of dispossessed or threatened pre-existing cultures), and to try to
- encourage constructive communication on those issues with all interested
- people who are capable of it. It may be negative to speak of losses as the
- common element of native cultures, but I see it as positive to recognize those
- losses, and to try to work together to oppose further losses.
-
- Harry R. Meyer hrmeyer@ucssun1.sdsu.edu
- (account in process of being moved from ucselx to ucssun1,
- ucssun1 ends in numeral 1)
-