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Article #1548Re: Boycott Hollywood
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 23:51
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 23:51
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vonroach (hadrainc@earthlink.net) wrote:
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: > Is everybody a member of some tribe or other?
: No I don't think so. Irish and Scots tend to be. Northern Germans
: (Prussians) are. French appear to be. Tribes are wide spread in
: Africa. Japanese are, but Chinese much less so. American Indians and
: Asian Indians try to be . The crucial difference seems to be if a
: people can cope with diversity and be tolerant of others without too
: much resentment. Tribes offer some support not otherwise available to
: their fellow members. I am not using `tribe' as a scientific theory,
: just as a statement of reality that can be observed in human
: societies. Amish communities would be another example.
: This has nothing what ever to do with Hitler's delusion about `aryan'
: superiority. I don't believe in `races' - but pragmatic observation
: does show varying cohesiveness in some societal groups and I call this
: a `tribe'. Tribes tend to look down on others who are not members of
: the tribe.
: Some people who consider that they are social elites and look down on
: others, often hide their prejudice from others and often themselves as
: well by using the stale old phrase: `Some of my best friends
: are.....'. Such a statement is almost never the truth or it wouldn't
: be necessary to start with. Perhaps they should be considered members
: of a tribe.
And Roachie has the chutzpah to accuse others of sophistry.
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