Names (White Privilege)

Mia Kalish MiaKalish at LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US
Tue Apr 25 20:38:17 UTC 2006


ROTFL. Okay.

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Jordan Lachler
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:28 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Names (White Privilege)

>The other thing I noticed is that Indigenous names are all about
>description, so you might actually have a clue about the place, how it
>looks, what you do there. White names are all about people, Brown's Ferry,
>Trump Tower, Camp David . . . .

Trump Tower... you mean that tower that has TRUMP written on 
it?  That one sounds pretty descriptive to me... :)

Jordan 



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