I did a north american archeology course once. The thing that struck me most was how primitive the Native Americans were. The height of technology before Europeans arrived was having simple copper tools. Fish hooks and needles and such that could be made from raw unprocessed copper that washed up on a shore somewhere. No wheel, only basic wood and skin structures all while China was at the height of the Ming Dynasty and Europe was going through the Renaissance and even the middle East was experimenting with new and creative gunpowder formulas. Meanwhile in America having a crummy raw copper fish hook is a big status symbol. And even then, Australian Aborigines were somehow even more primitive.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
Also the traditional name thing reminds me of when they renamed Barrow, Alaska to something unpronounceable that I can't remember.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
What they fail to understand is that any worthwhile knowledge they had (plants that had analgesic properties, eating fruit to be prevent some diseases during long sea voyages) as long since just been acquired, studied and understood and is part of "our" science now.
Everything else we didn't roll into our own stuff was garbage. So if "ancestral knowledge" now says something opposite to modern science, modern science is most likely the right answer.
utqiagvik. I don't do pronunciation symbols but oot-E-ah-vik It looks funny but pronounces fine. The thing about utqiagvik is it was and still is a native village. It is not populated with white people. You can't drive there, there isn't really much industry. The only reason you'd want to live there is you really hate people, but not so much to live completely in the wilderness or you've always lived there.
That’s… Not entirely accurate, but 60% native is very high, yes.
The rest of what you said is… Mostly accurate.
I’m sorry but Barrow is, and always will be, a better name than something that the majority of your fellow countrymen (I presume) will never be able to pronounce properly… And that will continue to be the name that the majority of people will use, whatever woke “government officials” may decide.
I’m not sure I agree with your stance on this stuff, sorry. But you do you. I suspect you’re in the minority in that state more broadly, but I guess if 60% of the population supposedly wants it to be called that, then sure, why not…
I did a north american archeology course once. The thing that struck me most was how primitive the Native Americans were. The height of technology before Europeans arrived was having simple copper tools. Fish hooks and needles and such that could be made from raw unprocessed copper that washed up on a shore somewhere. No wheel, only basic wood and skin structures all while China was at the height of the Ming Dynasty and Europe was going through the Renaissance and even the middle East was experimenting with new and creative gunpowder formulas. Meanwhile in America having a crummy raw copper fish hook is a big status symbol. And even then, Australian Aborigines were somehow even more primitive.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
Also the traditional name thing reminds me of when they renamed Barrow, Alaska to something unpronounceable that I can't remember.
What they fail to understand is that any worthwhile knowledge they had (plants that had analgesic properties, eating fruit to be prevent some diseases during long sea voyages) as long since just been acquired, studied and understood and is part of "our" science now.
Everything else we didn't roll into our own stuff was garbage. So if "ancestral knowledge" now says something opposite to modern science, modern science is most likely the right answer.
That has more to do with ideology; science is falsifiable-- ideology isn't, and that's the crux of the current issue.
Two other cruxes are:
(1) we're sort of running out of science to do (2) the science that we've done seems less and less meaningful
utqiagvik. I don't do pronunciation symbols but oot-E-ah-vik It looks funny but pronounces fine. The thing about utqiagvik is it was and still is a native village. It is not populated with white people. You can't drive there, there isn't really much industry. The only reason you'd want to live there is you really hate people, but not so much to live completely in the wilderness or you've always lived there.
That’s… Not entirely accurate, but 60% native is very high, yes.
The rest of what you said is… Mostly accurate.
I’m sorry but Barrow is, and always will be, a better name than something that the majority of your fellow countrymen (I presume) will never be able to pronounce properly… And that will continue to be the name that the majority of people will use, whatever woke “government officials” may decide.
I’m not sure I agree with your stance on this stuff, sorry. But you do you. I suspect you’re in the minority in that state more broadly, but I guess if 60% of the population supposedly wants it to be called that, then sure, why not…