Recent content by sandi Q

other cultures.? Havng been born in a different country, I noticed that difference as I adjusted to life and daily interactions in this country. Courses in linguistics and sociology confirmed by perceptions. Where I grew people tend to stand much closer to each other in ordinary encounters and...

You had better go back to the history books and study the origins of the term "Indians" to refer to the indigenous people of North America. Those people didn't call themselves "Indians:" They called themselves by their nation names--Cherokee, Iroquois, Shawnee etc. It was Columbus and the...

The question is suspiciously charitable, it has more than a whiff of mischief, and the more I think of it, is probably shot through with malicious racism. "The dark continent" ? Please emancipate yourself from the 19th century! Africa has seen enough do gooders and compassionate interlopers...