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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 06:18:34 GMT
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- In article <18844@mindlink.bc.ca> Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian) writes:
- >Inuit, so the Brits suffered and died from inappropriate clothing and diet
- >while the bemused Inuit watched and wondered.
- This reminded me of a funny thing I saw once - was back in the mid 1960s.
- On a midsummer day I was in Flagstaff, Arizona at a Taco Bell beside a
- highway. There was an Indian family (native American, not from India)
- sitting at another table. Walking along the highway came a white youth,
- trying to thumb a ride. He was wearing those high deerskin boots modeled
- after an Indian style of yore, and it was obvious his feet were hurting
- as he felt the rocks through those soft soles; besides it was an awfully
- hot day to be wearing knee-high leather boots. The Indian family and I
- watched him trudge past, and then I looked at them and they looked at me
- and we laughed...
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