Re: World Language Losses at a Glance

From: Robin Faichney (robin@ii01.org)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 09:37:40 BST

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    On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:23:10PM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
    > On 06/20/01 13:33, Robin Faichney said this-
    >
    > >It is simply to say that all supremacist traditions deserve to die,
    > >regardless of the culture of which they are part.
    >
    > Indeed - _if_ we can actually separate the supremacist tradition from the
    > culture at all. It appears to me that this supremacism _is_ the core of
    > many cultures, especially tribalistic ones.

    I doubt that. It looks a little too much like supremacism. But if
    a culture died because it had been prevented from practicing supremacist
    traditions, I probably wouldn't mourn it.

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    Robin Faichney
    Inside Information -- http://www.ii01.org -- "a prime source of meta-memes"
    

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