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To: Snowshoe who wrote (25531)	11/22/2007 12:20:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217617

I agree with that Snowy. I'm not against eating whales per se. They are more or less large, ocean-going hippos. If they are going to hunt them, they might as well do it right, like Japan does. It's just the pretence of cultural retention which I dislike. I have no idea what various Inuit get up to in preparing dinner. But one documentary I saw on tv was about Amerindians of some tribe [I forget which] making a great show of their wonderful "culture", with the aspect involved being how to kill and eat a whale. They looked and acted like city slickers rather than dinkum hunter gatherers. I suspect them of using their sacred culture as a way of getting opm [other people's money]. I can't find the photo now, but a few days ago there was a beauty of NZ's Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Condoleezza Rice walking out after their meeting, beaming away. Here they are obviously having a happy meeting. nzherald.co.nz Winston doesn't jump around in a grass skirt, baring his bum and sticking his tongue out. Condoleezza isn't a recently escaped slave. As you can see, they are modern people running modern countries and while they retain [as we all do] some of the cultural norms inherited from ancestors, they don't slavishly follow them, or cling to them like a life raft. Which isn't to say there aren't still some Maoris still living out beyond the black stump, growing kumara and eating pipis. There are. Nor that there aren't still Inuit living in the same areas as always. My point was that the Aztecs are for real. <We see ridiculous "Amerindians" murdering whales as part of their tribal "culture". They are NOT out there in skin canoes. They now use high tech, outboard motors and all mod-cons. Their culture is fake. The Aztecs are for real. Buying their biscuits and stashing them, chanting incantations about The Rapture and how they'll be saved. > Mqurice