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From: Rick Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The same reason that penhold table tennis blades have Asian names--because
>that's the ethnicity of the people who came up with the list of names for
>them and they used names they were familiar with. By the way, how many NON
>Western nations can you name that are directly affected by hurricanes
>(which cross the Atlantic Ocean from East to West)? It seems pretty
>reasonable that storms that will most strongly affect certain parts of the
>World are given names that are familiar to the people IN those parts of
>the World. Do you REALLY feel that it makes a difference whether a storm
>is named "Carlos" or "Linghui" to the people whose lives are disrupted or
>whose homes are destroyed by it?
>
>Why is it that anything that has even the most tenuous Western
>relationship, to you it is, by definition, Eurocentric? Given that you
>assume that all things named by European conventions are "Eurocentric," I
>suppose we can reasonably conclude that since your own name is European in
>derivation, you--or at least your parents who named you--are Eurocentric
>as well, right?
>
>You've beaten Eurocentricism to death here--why not try something new such
>as pointing out all the discrimination that is taking place against Flat
>Earthers? After all, Roundicentricism is very damaging to the egos of
>those who feel that Flatism (or is that Flatulism?) should enjoy equal
>coverage in our scientific programs!
>
>Rick <--Roundicentric psychologist
>
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>Rick Adams
>Capella University School of Technology
>Grand Canyon University School of Social Sciences.
>Jackson Community College Department of Social Sciences
>
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>"... and the only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love
>you leave behind when you're gone."
>-Fred Small, J.D., "Everything Possible"
>
It would seem to me that since they originate
in coastal Africa,throwing in a token African name
could not hurt.Btw,most Caribbean islands have
Eurocentric names and are not the original names
known by the indigenous Caribs and Arawaks who
first lived there.The island where I am from
was originally known as Hewannora.Now it is called
St.Lucia.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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