Comments on: Culture Matters http://sadredearth.com/culture-matters/ how we lived on it Thu, 17 May 2012 11:23:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A. Jay Adler http://sadredearth.com/culture-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1362 A. Jay Adler Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:19:24 +0000 http://sadredearth.com/?p=3991#comment-1362 Terri, excellent insights. And thanks so much for your good work and support. Terri, excellent insights. And thanks so much for your good work and support.

]]> By: Terri McIntyre http://sadredearth.com/culture-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Terri McIntyre Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:36:45 +0000 http://sadredearth.com/?p=3991#comment-1353 Like the satire of Jonathan Swift in A Modest Proposal, Sam Kinison's modern version of outrageous remedies to social plights causes us to sit up straight and say "What?" The satirist's aim is to jolt us into paying attention. I believe we need to pay attention, and listen. One good place to sit silently and really listen is this site, sadredearth; another is http://angryindian.blogspot.com/#maincontent. There are more--a chorus of voices. What are they saying? Listen. Like the satire of Jonathan Swift in A Modest Proposal, Sam Kinison’s modern version of outrageous remedies to social plights causes us to sit up straight and say “What?” The satirist’s aim is to jolt us into paying attention. I believe we need to pay attention, and listen. One good place to sit silently and really listen is this site, sadredearth; another is http://angryindian.blogspot.com/#maincontent. There are more–a chorus of voices. What are they saying? Listen.

]]> By: Don Otis http://sadredearth.com/culture-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 Don Otis Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:49:25 +0000 http://sadredearth.com/?p=3991#comment-1346 One of our desires is to help small businesses, minorities and troubled areas. This is fabulous insight into what we need to consider when approaching the Native Peoples. It is easy to be "too white" - what is it Ashleigh Brilliant said, something like "how can I talk to you in flowers if you think in stones?" This line of thinking is going to be at the basis for thinking through our approach to all populations that we work with. Without understanding the setting, the history, all good intentions are for naught. One of our desires is to help small businesses, minorities and troubled areas. This is fabulous insight into what we need to consider when approaching the Native Peoples. It is easy to be “too white” – what is it Ashleigh Brilliant said, something like “how can I talk to you in flowers if you think in stones?”

This line of thinking is going to be at the basis for thinking through our approach to all populations that we work with. Without understanding the setting, the history, all good intentions are for naught.

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