• crackajack@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Wow, least racist comment I have seen. Bravo.

    Read up on Boasian anthropology and it states that no cultures are inherently better or worse than another. How is the culture of Christian Europeans killing and enslaving hunter gatherers, who haven’t made written records, better? Many oral records also turned out to be just as accurate, provided they have been corroborated by scientific evidence. Many tribes have knowledge and wisdom unknown or unthought of by arrogant civilised and pampered individuals. An American Christian missionary was de-converted when a Praha tribe member from Brazil asked him if he had seen Jesus. When he replied “no”, the tribe member quipped why would he believe Jesus is god if the missionary had not even seen him? The tribe’s philosophy live in the moment, unlike the Western society always thinking of the future and past, striving for status symbol and material wealth. The Praha tribe may not have running water or huge houses, but they live their life carefree.

    You think playing Civilizations game with its oversimplified digirtal cartoon tech tree makes you an expert on anthropology to judge others. No, it just makes you a donkey’s cunt for doing so.

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      1 year ago

      Read up on Boasian anthropology and it states that no cultures are inherently better or worse than another.

      Ok, I disagree. Thanks Franz Boas.

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        1 year ago

        The Western capitalist and individualistic value of material consumption is totally not destroying the collective humanity by the result of environmental destruction in pursuit of profit. A totally superior culture indeed. Amirite?