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<blockquote data-quote="ratsapprentice" data-source="post: 810009" data-attributes="member: 67273"><p>Those intentions are vitally important when criticising the situation. And those who are criticising should understand that they have a far better chance of encouraging change by not being so ignorant of their target's intentions.</p><p>Perhaps I'm underestimating the accuracy of the stereotypical backwards Devonian, but I somehow doubt that the Chiefs fans who wear headdresses are trying to imply, or think that there are a load of Native Americans sitting around in bars or checking their email in ceremonial dress/wielding Tomahawks.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was responding to your point about the apparent esteem with which we hold our own culture - I'd suggest the number of people who think of our own historic cultures as barbaric are probably comparable to the number who think of the culture (caricature or otherwise) the Chiefs imagery symbolises is barbaric. That is all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ratsapprentice, post: 810009, member: 67273"] Those intentions are vitally important when criticising the situation. And those who are criticising should understand that they have a far better chance of encouraging change by not being so ignorant of their target's intentions. Perhaps I'm underestimating the accuracy of the stereotypical backwards Devonian, but I somehow doubt that the Chiefs fans who wear headdresses are trying to imply, or think that there are a load of Native Americans sitting around in bars or checking their email in ceremonial dress/wielding Tomahawks. I was responding to your point about the apparent esteem with which we hold our own culture - I'd suggest the number of people who think of our own historic cultures as barbaric are probably comparable to the number who think of the culture (caricature or otherwise) the Chiefs imagery symbolises is barbaric. That is all. [/QUOTE]
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