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echo: indian_affairs
to: SONDRA BALL
from: JIM CASTO
date: 1997-03-20 09:01:00
subject: Re: what are we? part 1

 -=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 JC> Some of my co-workers invariably get most of their meals from the "deli" 
on
 > the way home from work. They work longer hours to pay someone else to 
repa
 > their meals for them.
 SB> And generally they don't taste any better.
 Actually, IMHO, they are worse! 
 SB> say, "I like your version of this better."   I do enjoy going to
 SB> speicialty restaurants, however:  Morrocan, Mexican, etc.  There's a
 
 In that case, it's a matter of economics. It wouldn't pay to hunt down the
 local Morrocan market and buy some products that you may only use on rare
 occasions.
 SB> As a matter of fact, some Native American cultures found the European
 SB> emphasis on individuality to be quite absurb.  By emphasizing the
 Actually, some _Americans_ find the "European emphasis on individuality" to
 be absurd. 
 
 SB> Ah yes, the man who tried to get the US government to close down some
 SB> Indian casinos, and one of his arguements against the casinos was that
 SB> the Indians running it "don't look like Indians."
 
 I think he was talking out of some other "bodily orifice" than his mouth. I
 suspect that he is intelligent enough to know better. The comment does make
 a good "sound bite" that other people can relate to easily, however. All
 someone has to do around here is attend a powwow or two. You'll see lots of
 people that don't "look like Indians".
 Jim
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