Posted on 06/24/2013 1:39:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
China's Global Times - that reliable purveyor of the sublimely ridiculous, the terrifyingly nationalistic, and the just generally offensive -- struck again on Wednesday, with a quick nine-paragrapher that may just manage to combine all three offerings in one: "American Indians descend from Hunan, says expert."
The tabloid reports on the findings of Du Gangjian, dean of Hunan University Law School, who, on a recent trip to study Native American tribes in the United States (the article doesn't specify which ones), made the discovery that "American Indians have many rituals, habits and working tools that are very similar to the ones that exist among Hunan people."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.foreignpolicy.com ...
Where on the property are those growing?
I thought I recognized the gravel out front!
“He never would have been hired had he started out then, even though political correctness was just beginning to take root.”
It boggles the mind. I can’t fathom their hypocrisy, as if they ever examined how ridiculous it is to be a white person telling a Sioux Indian what he has to think about his and his tribe’s origins, for the ‘good’ of the new world of equality and progress and ‘making up for’ how Europeans treated people like the Sioux.
Note: this topic is from 6/24/2013. Thanks nickcarraway.
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