tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post103589954782541125..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: A Biological Take on Identity Politics D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-85477220798569391172012-08-28T18:39:31.108-04:002012-08-28T18:39:31.108-04:00Careful - not a topic you want to be involved with...Careful - not a topic you want to be involved with - as Theo Sarazzin found out; right or wrong don't make a difference here;<br /><br />remember: identity politics is EVERYTHING. it's just that your "gang" is weaker than the other gangs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-68705933489837717192012-08-22T16:53:05.607-04:002012-08-22T16:53:05.607-04:00Magdalena, your observation meshes with my own exp...Magdalena, your observation meshes with my own experience. Americans do tend to live in an eternal present. if others have different experiences, I hope they will speak up. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-23322842157889870702012-08-22T12:15:40.445-04:002012-08-22T12:15:40.445-04:00Anonymous, I'm very deeply moved by your menti...Anonymous, I'm very deeply moved by your mention of prayers. I really hold on to those words. Thank you. <br /><br />here's an update on that front:<br /><br />http://save-send-delete.blogspot.com/2012/08/suffering-proves-soul-how-do-you.htmlD Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-37149338271141488632012-08-21T14:31:23.855-04:002012-08-21T14:31:23.855-04:00You may find this BBC documentary interesting (htt...You may find this BBC documentary interesting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6cQSR3mPm8).<br /><br />The whole thing reminds me of Frank Herbert's Dune back from 1965. It should probably stay there - in sci-fi books, that is.<br /><br />I'd like you to know that you have people praying for you and your recovery all over the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-43101635488128837532012-08-21T04:22:01.287-04:002012-08-21T04:22:01.287-04:00Re Celts in mainland Europe: I thought that it was...Re Celts in mainland Europe: I thought that it was pretty much a given that Celts used to inhabit most of Europe at some point in time? I'm very vague about the timeframe, as I USED to be very interested in archaeology about 20+ years ago, and I can only recall disjointed fragments of information now... Nevertheless, even if Celts used to live all over the place, it was so long ago that most modern Europeans have no, or only the tiniest, "connection" with these peoples. It's nice to look back and think about them once being there, but that's about it. ;-)<br />It's interesting that while most Polish families in Poland tend to talk to kids about the past and share past experiences both trivial and historical, from what I have personally learnt, most American families tend to live in a sort of eternal present - the grandparents go silent to their graves, their house and possessions, including photos and other personal items, are sold off in a yard sale, and everyone moves on. Nobody remembers who they were or what they went through. This is of course a generalisation, but when talking to Americans I have often heard them say "I wish grandpa had told me about his life at the front during WW2" or similar things. I cannot imagine my grandpa NOT telling me about such stuff. Is it really true that Americans are unable of cherishing / handing down their history (history that is created from the lives of individuals, not the big History that you get packaged from the bookstore)? Or is that only my personal misconception?Magdalena Paśnikowskahttp://zahoryzont.blog.onet.plnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-36118427586462855352012-08-20T23:09:44.446-04:002012-08-20T23:09:44.446-04:00Your account of certain Hispanics assuming that th...Your account of certain Hispanics assuming that they must be Jewish because they are good in business, like books, are intelligent, etc., reminds me of those WWII Nazi Germans who believed that Poles who exhibit traits such as punctuality, cleanliness, and a sense of order are self-evidently of German descent, even if independent evidence of German ancestry is lacking.<br /><br />Consider also the question if any modern peoples are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. My review of one scholarly work on this topic can be accessed by clicking my name on this specific posting. Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/review/R3VVDP6ZH8APNE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0819184098&linkCode&nodeID&tagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-85430768565415976082012-08-20T15:11:21.711-04:002012-08-20T15:11:21.711-04:00Good to hear you're still with us, Danusha, an...Good to hear you're still with us, Danusha, and writing.<br /><br />On the issue of genetic memory, I think most people have the opposite: genetic forgetting. They forget what has come before, the sorrow and terror their fathers and mothers and ancestors experienced. <br /><br />I think every teacher knows this who has asked his students to write about the generations that have come before.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-41196708958153759452012-08-19T13:04:51.891-04:002012-08-19T13:04:51.891-04:00A genetic memory, eh?
I think not, but maybe I ...A genetic memory, eh? <br /><br />I think not, but maybe I was a Polish candle for my father, a repository for all the memories of Modliborzyce, the Jewish tavern with a red-head woman barkeep he loved, the gypsy woman who recommended a poultice of pollen which finally healed him, the friends lost to the ovens, and before that the small boy in rural leadbelt Missouri terroized by adults in the community who wanted his people, my people OUT. (as other around the globe still want this one or that out/dead/gone>)<br />That's not what is in my genes, thank you for pointing this out so well Danusha, but those stories and more are most definitely in my heart. <br /><br />Christina PacoszAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-12298969679612331702012-08-19T09:09:56.566-04:002012-08-19T09:09:56.566-04:00It's a weird world we live in. This sort of no...It's a weird world we live in. This sort of nonsense about reincarnation (the story here is simply a variant) is pretty wide spread and has manifested itself in recovered memories during the sex abuse scares of the early 90s, the belief that indigenous peoples have some secret, metaphysical gateway to higher knowledge and so on. <br /><br />Identity is a cultural construct but people don't want to believe it if they don't have to and so invent circumstances where they are free to imagine anything at all that suits them about their identity. The twist here is that they want to identify as descendants of people who suffered persecution. <br /><br />Currently, being of Celtic descent is quite fashionable among some groups in Europe and all sorts of claims are being made for the breadth of Celtic influence across Europe pre the Roman conquest.The result of such wishful thinking is that apparently in book fairs in places there are stalls set out by publishers with popular tomes about the spread of Celtic culture and associated issues, with locals forming large groups browsing this stuff which is based on either the flimsiest evidence stretched to breaking point or coincidence rather than evidence. <br /><br />All the best for continued recovery.Peter Rechniewskinoreply@blogger.com