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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Abstraction & Generalization Culture
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2021, 08:39:27 pm »

1.  Are you saying aboriginals are weak for resisting a ton of outsiders coming and living in their territory?   
2.  Would they be "strong" for allowing the majority of reserve populations to become non-aboriginal?
3.  Do you think aboriginals should support large numbers of "outsiders" from living on their territory to the point of them becoming a minority and making indigenous culture and outsider cultures equally important?
4.  Are indigenous cultures worthy of preserving?

5.  Do indigenous people who want to preserve their culture differ from MAGA and Brexit folks?  If so, how?

5.  Is British culture, or culture in France or Sweden worthy of preserving? 
5b. How does this differ from indigenous cultures, besides feelings of victim/oppressor guilt?

6.  Are the Quebecois "weak" for trying to preserve their language/culture?

1. 2. 3. No
4. If they want to, they can try.
5. Yes, they are actually preserving cultures that are dying, not whatever ours is.
5. If they want to, they can try.
5b. Nobody is going to preserve anything by keeping people out, persecuting them etc.  The devil is in the details.
6. I think they are, kind of.  They don't realize how strong they are, I think.

But you are taking this in a different direction.  You seem to be pivoting on the term 'tribalism' that I used and asking about ethno-racial cultures or whatever. 

It's fine but I'm trying to figure out a way to characterize how people can convey ideas, generalities and abstractions without falling into fallacies... as per the OP.

Maybe your topic is more engaging actually...