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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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?
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Re: that word, 'genocide'. does it mean what you think it means?
Date: 2004-11-11 03:15 pm (UTC)