Siraya update

[Chun Jimmy Huang]

No the colonists don't seem to perceive the meaning of 
"diversity," but they simply do things that make it look like they 
care. A university in Taiwan puts on this web page for "learning 
the indigenous languages." I browsed it and found that every 
lesson for every different language shares the same content. In 
lesson 1, the students stand up and bow to the teacher. It's 
Chinese Confucianism and has nothing to do with the Austronesian 
culture ("alchemy" indeed, Rolland). But still, the university 
gets to show off its "engagement with indigenous culture, 
singular".

Jimmy

On Thu Apr 23 16:03:33 EDT 2009, William J Poser 
<wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:

> I think that the attitude of these university administrators was
> basically that they didn't care about the native people and 
> didn't
> want to go to much trouble to deal with them but felt a need to
> make a show of political correctness. Sponsoring some "Indian"
> activities without careful thought as to whose they were and
> how to deal with the diversity of nations in the region is just
> one example of this. Bill
> 
>