Isn't it just great when someone replies a week later? *g*
I remember being very perturbed to learn that many cultures had the black/white=bad/good thing going on way before European colonization came along. Yes, even African cultures. I had to wrap my head around that one.
(And then, yes, those ideas got attached to skin color, and all the complications got much simplified by our simple-minded language. *sigh*)
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Date: 2007-09-30 05:11 pm (UTC)I remember being very perturbed to learn that many cultures had the black/white=bad/good thing going on way before European colonization came along. Yes, even African cultures. I had to wrap my head around that one.
(And then, yes, those ideas got attached to skin color, and all the complications got much simplified by our simple-minded language. *sigh*)