Hello Louise,
Thursday, Thursday, April 01, 1999, Louise wrote:
LAH> The relationship between ethnicity and geography is a historically
LAH> important one going back to Aristotle. This issue is detailed in the book,
LAH> Black Athena, in which various colonial powers used geography to justify
LAH> claims of racial and ethnic superiority through the belief that the
LAH> temperate regions of Europe produced temperate personalities while harsh &
LAH> extreme climates produced individuals that were prone to extremes and
LAH> fanaticism.
LAH> Louise
LAH> Louise A. Hitchcock, Ph.D.
LAH> Research Associate
There is no doubt about what you say. The question is
whether we are going to continue to support the idea. DO
people need a place to fix their identity? Can we expect
some social engineering in the future to encourage people to
drop territoriality from their list of necessities, so that
conflict over places is one less issue to shed blood over?
Regards,
John mailto:[log in to unmask]
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