Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:26:07 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: absolutely NVC whatsoever, amazing pictures
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Joy,
You are so right.
I lived among the Yupik Eskimo People of Alaska from 1970-1975. Made
some good friends. One cultural difference was how reticent in speech
they were, as opposed to the "Gussuks" (or gussaks - which were mostly
the white people in the area. Probably a derivation of the Russian
"cossacks") . Just didn't talk as much as we. Where during inclement
weather we would look out and say "Hmm, the wind is blowing hard from
the northeast, there's low clouds and light drizzle with some fog, the
temperature is 48 degrees, and the chill factor 32 degrees", the Eskimo
would stick his head out the door and say in Yupik, "It rains, it blows,
need coat today." That would be it.
You are right, different ways of seeing the world. Sometimes those
cultural differences can be wonderful.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver x2
Joy Hecht wrote:
>The weird thing is, I took a photo around two weeks ago, here in Malawi, of
>a rainbow ending in front of trees - the other end was in the middle of a
>road, and I have a picture with a car driving through it. (Mine are nothing
>as good as the ones on that website, though.)
>
>I'd never seen a rainbow end in front of anything before!
>
>And of course no pot of gold. The funny thing is that Malawians don't have
>the idea that there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. When I've
>shown my photo to expats here they all ask about the pot of gold, and the
>Malawians all look kind of blank because they don't know what we mean.
>
>It's funny, the kinds of cultural differences you'd never think of if you
>didn't come across them by chance.
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>
>Joy
>
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>Joy Hecht
>and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
>
>For musings about life and the vanadventures:
>http://www.joyhecht.net
>
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>:::-----Original Message-----
>:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
>:::Of Roger Sisler
>:::Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:02 PM
>:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>:::Subject: Re: absolutely NVC whatsoever, amazing pictures
>:::
>:::That one picture has the rainbow ending in front of the row of trees.
>:::Only
>:::a few feet away. Do you suppose the photographer got that pot o'gold?
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