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its an iteresting problem if you have enough time

to be exactly there are a lot of problems and the most importent is communication. if you talk with the natives there is allways a language barrier. do you realy understand what they say? and do you realy understand what they mean? you know what a sabretooth tiger was but the native probably dont know it so you take the term "sabretooth" and label the words of the native with this. what you realy do is to act as if you had the same mind like he have.
karen blixen wrote somewhere that bantu's stop in the development of their consciousness on the level of a 9 years old, somali on the level of a 13 years old. this does not meaning they are not real humans or is a cild of 9 years or an old man of 90 not a human like you and me.
this watching was the explanation of the colonial age when the western civilisation had to care for the young and underdevelopt people in the today third world.


something to think about it

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Haven't had a chance to look at the videos yet. Karen Blixen also commented on the African's dislike of monotony. That they don't cope will with regular and boring activities. Perhaps related to the above. Of course a generalisation, but it is true different cultures have different values and characteristics.

A very noticeable feature of the like of excitement is if one ever gets to see when a pickpocket gets outed on an African city street. I watched the excitement from a tall hotel window in Nairobi in 1988. A pickpocket gets seen, someone yells out, the pickpocket runs for it. Everyone joins in the chase, from every direction. The pickpocket ducks and weaves, changes direction, jumps over tables, plants, people chasing from every direction. Eventually gets caught and soundly beaten.

I read about this phenomenon in a book before or after this. The American journalist author who lived in Africa for decades said - you may think the people are very law abiding and hate crime, chasing down a thief like that. But it is nothing to do with being law abiding, but instead the excitement of the chase, catching and beating someone, that is behind it all. A love of excitement and a dislike of boredom.

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John aka NitroX

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