Andean aborigines haven't suffered enough under the white man's rule, apparently; now they will soon have a Quechua version of Windows at their disposal. You know, i make this face whenever i have to work on Windows, too.
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If you meant NORTH American abos, sure. Genocide-a-palooza. South American abos were more 'subjugated' than 'genocided.' Well, that and 'fucked into widespread mestizage,' whence spring me and thee.
There's certainly as many Alvarezes and Rodriguezes as Quillahuamans or Huarhuas in any really rural Quechua town where I've spent time... and by and large I'd say that much, much more of the culture survived mestizage in the Andes than in North America. So I guess we can't say genocide. But I mean, c'mon, there's all that drawing and quartering, extirpation of idolatry, and flaming arrows into thatch-roofed houses kind of stuff, and that's gotta count for something, right? Like a ticket out of having to have Windows?
If there's anybody at all who is a Quechua speaker, AND literate, and not also literate in Spanish, I would really like to know exactly how that came to pass. No, really, I would. Because I've never met anybody who was a Quechua speaker and could read and write, who didn't also speak Spanish. And they're still arguing about writing Quechua in the first place. It's been written at all for um... my lifetime or so, and indeed, as a Quechua speaker (and it was my sister's first language fer cryin' out loud) there's a degree to which writing it down and coming up with rules for it totally ruins the language. And hey, I actually remember a time when kids got beaten for speaking Quechua in school. By the teachers that is. Oh sure, Quechua Windows. Will it be culturally sensitive? Can I have a dancing quipucamayoc assistant? Or is that khipukamayuj assistant now?
But, you know, I mean, what-fuckin'-ever. And all of that is, you know, leaving aside that, being as I am the white-girl adoptee of a Quechua town and so perhaps the only white girl on the planet whose childhood nightmare fodder was white guys in armor involving poofy pantaloons and steel breastplates spearing my friends while burning everyone's ancestors so as to stick crosses in the huacas, well, ok, see, I liked the world better WITHOUT THE QUECHUA WINDOWS, dammit.
BEFORE QUECHUA WINDOWS: Everyone's partying and happy, see:
AFTER: When the Intihuatana got broken for a beer commercial, that must have made it so Quechua Windows could be created. The HORROR I can't stand it.
Ok, ok, ok, I'll stop. I'm full-on frothing at the mouth though so it's hard.
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Date: 2004-11-11 02:14 pm (UTC)that word, 'genocide'. does it mean what you think it means?
Date: 2004-11-11 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-11 03:08 pm (UTC)Re: that word, 'genocide'. does it mean what you think it means?
Date: 2004-11-11 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-11 02:54 pm (UTC)If there's anybody at all who is a Quechua speaker, AND literate, and not also literate in Spanish, I would really like to know exactly how that came to pass. No, really, I would. Because I've never met anybody who was a Quechua speaker and could read and write, who didn't also speak Spanish. And they're still arguing about writing Quechua in the first place. It's been written at all for um... my lifetime or so, and indeed, as a Quechua speaker (and it was my sister's first language fer cryin' out loud) there's a degree to which writing it down and coming up with rules for it totally ruins the language. And hey, I actually remember a time when kids got beaten for speaking Quechua in school. By the teachers that is. Oh sure, Quechua Windows. Will it be culturally sensitive? Can I have a dancing quipucamayoc assistant? Or is that khipukamayuj assistant now?
But, you know, I mean, what-fuckin'-ever. And all of that is, you know, leaving aside that, being as I am the white-girl adoptee of a Quechua town and so perhaps the only white girl on the planet whose childhood nightmare fodder was white guys in armor involving poofy pantaloons and steel breastplates spearing my friends while burning everyone's ancestors so as to stick crosses in the huacas, well, ok, see, I liked the world better WITHOUT THE QUECHUA WINDOWS, dammit.
BEFORE QUECHUA WINDOWS: Everyone's partying and happy, see:
AFTER: When the Intihuatana got broken for a beer commercial, that must have made it so Quechua Windows could be created. The HORROR I can't stand it.
Ok, ok, ok, I'll stop. I'm full-on frothing at the mouth though so it's hard.