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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=499091921-12062012>So...do you have an
opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading it....or anyone
else...particularly indigenous people on the list....probably worded wrong but
not meant to be exclusive or chauvinistic(not a gender
statement)...</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>wahjeh</DIV>
<DIV align=left>rolland nadjiwon</DIV>
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style="COLOR: #333333"> <FONT color=#000000> “in the cabaret of
globalization, the state appears as a stripper — </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="COLOR: #333333"><FONT color=#000000>it strips off all its characteristics
until only the bare essential remains: repressive force.” SubCommander
Marcos...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></FONT>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Indigenous Languages and Technology
[mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Phillip E Cash
Cash<BR><B>Sent:</B> June-12-12 1:53 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ILAT] How geography shapes
cultural diversity (fwd link)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT face=georgia,serif>How geography shapes cultural
diversity<BR><BR>Study offers evidence that long countries give better
protection to languages than those that are wide.<BR><BR>Zoë Corbyn<BR>11 June
2012<BR><BR>One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is
because they came from a continent that was broader in an east–west direction
than north–south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.<BR><BR>Continents that span narrower bands of
latitude have less variation in climate, which means a set of plants and animals
that are adapted to more similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond,
because it means that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily,
with culture and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis
predicts, along lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than
along lines of longitude.<BR><BR>To test that prediction, researchers at
Stanford University in California used language persistence as a proxy for
cultural diversity, and analysed the percentage of historically indigenous
languages that remain in use in 147 countries today relative to their shape. For
example, the team looked at the difference between Chile, which has a long
north–south axis, and Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to
west.<BR><BR>Access full article below:<BR><A
href="http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808">http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808</A><BR></FONT></FONT><A></A>
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