[Powderworks] Tips on Oz...
Mike Blackwood
mikeb@cs.mun.ca
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:05:11 -0330 (NST)
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Kate Parker Adams wrote:
> What a wonderful travelogue you have written for us! I'm going to archive
> it so I can read it again when we eventually get around to exporting
> ourselves for a year or two (much better to live there for a while than try
> to afford time and money for an extended holiday - and since everyone plans
> to visit us, we won't have to leave for the duration!).
I wish I wrote it.... I only transcribed an unknown author's work.
> p.s. When that horridly reductionist and racist "how to be stupid with
> statistics" book known as The Bell Curve came out, I suggested that the
> author be subjected to an Aboriginal IQ test: strand him in the outback
> and we'll see just how smart he is!
Exactly... I teach children about the northern peoples of my province of
Canada (Newfoundland & Labrador) at the Provincial Museum. They at first
find the ways of life I describe odd, but when I point out that these
people lived off the land in a place where the land would be leathal to
most of us wussy city-folk, and were doing it a much as 9000 years ago,
they become suitably impressed. (well, if they were paying attention, at
least...)
Mike