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Post by Dienekes on Nov 19, 2003 20:32:10 GMT -5
Mediterraneanists, Nordicists and Afrocentrics and anyone else for that matter can post here as long as they're nice and not just trying to start a fight.
That's our difference from existing race-related sites out there. We're interested in race, but as a forum we don't have any position on race. Individual members/moderators of course have their own positions, but the forum as a whole doesn't.
If you decide on launching another forum, I wish you luck. There's nothing wrong in having alternative venues for discussion, both with a particular perspective and non-ideological ones like Dodona.
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Post by galvez on Nov 19, 2003 20:48:12 GMT -5
Dienekes writes: "We're interested in race, but as a forum we don't have any position on race." That is very much understood. Like I told AWAR, I will tone down any potentially inflammatory rhetoric so that this forum can be a success and can work out as something mutually agreed upon by sensible folks.  -Galvez |
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Post by skord on Nov 19, 2003 22:01:43 GMT -5
This forum is a good idea for people who are interested in anthropology only!
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Post by galvez on Nov 19, 2003 22:35:52 GMT -5
Skordisk writes:
"This forum is a good idea for people who are interested in anthropology only!"
I think the forum can cover much more than simply guessing at morphological features and under what category they fall. One of my criticisms has been the high margin of error in the Skadi forum.
There are many issues that can be discussed about race -- classification of types is just one topic.
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Post by skord on Nov 19, 2003 22:52:05 GMT -5
S I think the forum can cover much more than simply guessing at morphological features and under what category they fall. One of my criticisms has been the high margin of error in the Skadi forum. I take that as an insult:) I am a good classifier over there.I do not classify just by nationality like some others do. |
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Post by AWAR on Nov 20, 2003 9:51:06 GMT -5
I think we should keep this site not related to politics.
Trust me, I wouldn't like seeing a horde of foreigners coming to live in my country, and I'm pretty nationalistic when it comes to some issues, but this is just a forum, and I welcome ANYONE here, as long as they act nice.
In any case, I'd more like a fruitful discussion about race and anthropology with a black member, than a flame-war with someone who's from my country.
The view that there is any absolutely pure population to me sounds silly, because we already divide ourselves on other basis ( ethnos, politics, religion etc. ) so I don't think that phenotype can be decisive in accepting someone as 'my own kind'.
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