[blam]

GGG Ping.

I've read a couple of Jared Diamond's books and find him a bit to PC for my taste.

[rcocean]

Diamond is a left-wing propagandist.

He starts with the result and writes to reach the objective.

[satchmodog9]

bump

[Rodney King]

Most of the Khoi populations no longer exist; European colonists shot, displaced, or infected many of them, and the survivors interbred with Europeans.

Today there are just 200,000 Pygmies scattered amid 120 million blacks. This fragmentation suggests that Pygmy hunters lived throughout the equatorial forests until they were displaced and isolated into small groups by the arrival of black farmers.

Of course, when white displace a population, we shot, infected, etc. For some reason there is no mention of how the blacks displaced the Pygmies. Perhaps they had a great big Kwanzaa feast, sung songs, and then the Pygmies eagerly volunteered to move off into the forests.

[BenLurkin]

A differing view of one small aspect of this article: http://www.namibian.com.na/2004/february/letters/042319AAD2.html

[68skylark]

Good article -- you never know what kind of gems will turn up at FR.

[TexasTransplant]

How did Democrats become anti-American?
How did Democrats become anti-Christian?
How did Democrats become anti-Life?
How did Democrats become anti-Freedom?

Is it a Party or is it a collection of weirdos?

TT

[Little Bill]

As you know, I think that people came in to Africa rather than out.

[Jaysun]

See idiots? Africa is great because it's "diverse".

[river rat]

" No other continent even approaches this human diversity, and no other continent can rival Africa in the complexity of its human past."

Doesn't speak well for "diversity" does it?

Semper Fi

[razorback-bert]

Thanks, book marking.

[hgro]

Ho Humm and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Wake me at the end of this trivia.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

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[A CA Guy]

I think Africa is screwed up for the most part and when they point to diversity as being a strength, I think Africa proves diversity is what you GET OVER, it is NOT a strength.
Diversity of culture can be a bad thing.
Diversity of many marketable skills is a good thing.

Nazis and tribes who kill each other acting out in Africa to me is a horror in our time.

[Virginia-American]

placemark for tomorrow.

[eleni121]

Mr Diamond can say what he imagines but I can't help but wonder every time I hear an African immigrant from some hellhole over there (choicer words used by the Africans themselves) in one of my classes tell me how fortunate the African slaves were in being brought to America.

Or when they say the Brits should never have granted Independence to the nations in Africa. That always makes liberal profs cringe when they hear it.

And every time I hear that I think...yes.

[Jessarah]

The distribution of Khoisan languages testifies to an even more dramatic engulfing. Those languages are famously unique--they're the ones that use clicks as consonants.

Does anyone know if there is a place on the internet where I could hear an example of these clicking languages? I would love to listen to an example of that.

[Chani]

ping for later