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Some indigenous cultures never invented writing and are hunter gathers. They don't have time to engage in any sort of philosophy. There's no basis for them to even describe these ideas.
It's not better. It's not different. It's underdeveloped.
I think it’s weird how we use terms like indigenous culture. Western culture is indigenous to the west.
It’s weird how the whole noble savage myth just keeps on trucking
Frankly if argue that grouping all the different varied cultures under the simple term "western culture" is equally reductive and unproductive. There is no single "Western Culture" just as there's no single "indigenous culture"
And that is fair and correct.
White savior complex is alive and well
So I guess the white savior can stop saving, the noble savage can stop being noble and we can all chill, just like the meme suggests.
"Western culture" isn't even universal in Europe. Sami and several peoples around Russia are quite distinct from anything rooted in the Roman empire. Many of them don't subscribe to any of the Abrahamic faiths, while others only converted to Christianity in the last few hundred years.
That’s a group I don’t know much about. I only heard about them more recently.
That's definitely one of the opinions of all time.
Is it underdeveloped though? They're certainly not the ones driving us toward the 6th mass extinction and potentially an uninhabitable earth (for humans)
Yes it's undeveloped
That's not what you said, you said underdeveloped, two very different things.
Okay sorry I think it's underdeveloped and undeveloped. Primitive, lesser, inferior, etc.
Ah okay, so you're bigoted, at least you admit it.
Yes, I admit it. I'm not going to play intellectually dishonest games with you or pretend I'm something I'm not.
That's good because I think you're a shitty excuse for a human being.
We are all flawed. Humans are inherently flawed creatures. I'm sorry you feel like this is a personal attack on you.
That's a convenient excuse for your racism. Fuck off, baseless, revisionist racist.
I'm just reading this and am a bit confused. The dude might be racist or whatever... idk, but wouldn't a culture that never developed written language be fairly considered "underdeveloped" in modern times?
Just a weird thread that turned to name calling super fast, and I'm not sure where that concept is wrong. Unless you believe humanity would be better developed if it devolved backwards to a point that written language didn't exist?
Imagine behaving like this with the one life you have
Thinking about the language needed to express philosophical ideas and how language can impact your ability to form complex arguments is probably not the best use of my time. It's pretty interesting though and I enjoy it so it's not exactly a waste.
Their validity, or even their level of quality as a culture, is not necessarily measured by their ability to invent writing. We are not automatically better than them just because of that, and we certainly don't have the right to pass them off as savages.
They don’t have time to engage in any sort of philosophy.
They did. Columbus made contact with a very sophisticated culture that was soon wiped out by disease, and effectively entered a dark age from which it never recovered.
We normally divide human philosophy into Western and Eastern types. There's some evidence that on the American continents, there was a third independently developed branch of philosophy. It was all but lost, with only oral retellings remaining.
Spoken like a true colonist.
Wow, least racist comment I have seen. Bravo.
Read up on Boasian anthropology and it states that no cultures are inherently better or worse than another. How is the culture of Christian Europeans killing and enslaving hunter gatherers, who haven't made written records, better? Many oral records also turned out to be just as accurate, provided they have been corroborated by scientific evidence. Many tribes have knowledge and wisdom unknown or unthought of by arrogant civilised and pampered individuals. An American Christian missionary was de-converted when a Praha tribe member from Brazil asked him if he had seen Jesus. When he replied "no", the tribe member quipped why would he believe Jesus is god if the missionary had not even seen him? The tribe's philosophy live in the moment, unlike the Western society always thinking of the future and past, striving for status symbol and material wealth. The Praha tribe may not have running water or huge houses, but they live their life carefree.
You think playing Civilizations game with its oversimplified digirtal cartoon tech tree makes you an expert on anthropology to judge others. No, it just makes you a donkey's cunt for doing so.