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To: DieHard the Hunter
I suspect it would take the university student longer than 3 days to learn how to survive in the Outback

You completely missed the point of my post. It would be far easier for an modern man to learn to live in the Outback than an Stone Age tribesman to learn to live in a modern society.
268 posted on 10/17/2007 1:16:02 PM PDT by RedMonqey ( The truth is never PC)
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To: RedMonqey

> You completely missed the point of my post. It would be far easier for an modern man to learn to live in the Outback than an Stone Age tribesman to learn to live in a modern society.

I don’t think I missed the point of your post at all. My response is that a modern man would not have the luxury of alot of time to learn how to live in the Outback. Dropped into that environment s/he would surely die after a very short time.

So in many ways your experiment fails, based upon practical constraints. The Aborigine subsists day-to-day in a “school of hard knocks” that would preclude your university student from studying there.

As to Stone Age tribesmen, one can look to the Maori as excellent examples. It took very little time for them to adapt to Europeans and assimilate, to some degree, into modern society. There are plenty of Maori in universities, and more than plenty have degrees.


272 posted on 10/17/2007 1:44:06 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: RedMonqey; DieHard the Hunter
You completely missed the point of my post. It would be far easier for an modern man to learn to live in the Outback than an Stone Age tribesman to learn to live in a modern society.


323 posted on 10/17/2007 8:27:11 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (America: “the most benign hegemon in history.”—Mark Steyn)
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