01-17-2020, 07:34 AM
So cheap, their kids on the mountain can discard those items after only a few months use without giving it a second thought.
It is racist to suggest that only Hawaiians would do such things. What we have here is selective cultural assimilation: lifted 4x4 and cheap Chinese goods OK, but other Western-style progress is desecration.
Note that this hasn't been said by astronomers but by others who do not understand the field of observational astronomy.
Yes -- however, in this context, it will require the invention of new, more subtle types of irony.
It is racist to suggest that only Hawaiians would do such things. What we have here is selective cultural assimilation: lifted 4x4 and cheap Chinese goods OK, but other Western-style progress is desecration.
Note that this hasn't been said by astronomers but by others who do not understand the field of observational astronomy.
Yes -- however, in this context, it will require the invention of new, more subtle types of irony.