What was that all about!!
Confused Queenslander (and ex-pom)
wrote:
> Hi Penny, Anne, Niels....
>
> Echoing Penny "Speaking as a pommmie migrant....." I am getting more
> and more concerned about the overrepresentation of NW European
> "protestant" countries and their exports on this mailing list.
> ("Protestant countries" goes back to Durkheim's marvellous pioneering
> sociological works - especially the suicide study - over 100 years ago.)
>
> Is there any social anthropologist out there who can give hints (like
> those that Victoria Quinton was asking about in relation to children)
> which would help us birders embrace people from other backgrounds ?
>
> For the original Australians - as I understand it - birds, animals and
> other "things" were/are part of thinking about the world: who we are and
> they are and what we must do to preserve what is precious. Usurping
> English monarchs adopted badges like Broom (the Plantagenets - not
> wanted here) or roses (red or white -ditto). What is valued and should
> be built upon in relation to non-Pom cultures ? How should this
> wasteful society build upon its aboriginal heritage ?
>
> Michael Norris
> Hampton, Vic
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