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- From: MAINE.maine.edu!IO20905 (Karen E. Colburn)
- Subject: Re: Native Culture Loss?
- Message-ID: <IO20905.930127120210@maine.maine.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:02:10 GMT
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- Original Sender: MAINE.maine.edu!IO20905 (Karen E. Colburn)
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- Michael Adams raises some interesting questions about assimilation, when
- he decribes his view of the natives in Nome. What does it mean to
- "become white, dress white, look white"? What is fashion, in clothing,
- especially when it becomes chic to dress after Raggae types, or the
- earlier Nehru jackets? Is it "fashionable," to be "white"?
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- What about language? How can people live in an area, and not
- speak the vernacular? If we travel, no, if we LIVE in an area where
- people speak French, for instance, how can we survive without learning
- and living and speaking in French?
-
- Drugs? A lot of alcohol might be distinctly American, but wine
- is as old as the hills, at least in "the cradle of Western Civilization"
- and in the east and far east, if we consider the words of the Torah, and
- the existence of retsina in Greece and sake in Japan. And coke and
- marijuana are as old, and were consumed in those areas where they grow,
- well before international trade.
-
- Hmm. Kids with whites. Women who bear children. Native women
- who bear children to white men. What's the ratio of men to women? Do
- native men never date or marry white women? Why is that? Why is it
- more okay for women to "date white" than men?
-
- I agree when Michael says young people need to learn to value
- their lives and their culture, instead of ignoring and discrediting
- their past...
-
- I prefer to answer the larger question. What does it mean to be
- human, and how can we all, distinct as we are as individuals, learn to
- live together peacefully?
-
- Michael, what do you mean about "subsistence value" and
- "membership in local native corps"?
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