Message-ID: <199610090326.AA29637@mail.crl.com> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:24:39 -0800 From: Gary Berlind <mailto:gberlind@CRL.COM> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Appropriate Technology To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Bob:Are you being dense on purpose?
Gary Berlind
>I'm not sure who to credit with the partial quote below.
>
>> In many indigenous
>> cultures, there is absolutely no concept of an "inanimate
>> object".
>
>My initial thought was "So what?"
>
>The following is a little more politically correct (and productive I
>hope).
>
>In some cultures, things/objects/nouns are assigned gender. It does not
>follow the a male object and a female object can create progeny.
>
>In some cultures, there is no such thing as germs, but they exist.
>
>I, and a lot of other people, don't know the Urdru word for the concept of
>bad, but (I'm pretty sure) there is one.
>
>There are a lot of concepts I don't "have", but those concepts exist.
>
>Just because the concept is not conceived, does not mean the concept
>doesn't exist.
>
>Bob