Taniwha420@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why doesn’t Miss Piggy call herself Mademoiselle Cochon?
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5 months agoI mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.
I mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.
They’re naked seeds. I get you.
… until AI starts “pranking” us by making us dead.
I believe that “Indian Giving” is sourced in a cultural misunderstanding between Indigenous and European societies. Indigenous societies were reciprocity based, so giving gifts should be reciprocated with a gift of like value to strengthen relationships, or increase honour (social standing). The Europeans were working in a patron-client system so a gift was seen as a way of purchasing access to power through a patron. The Europeans thought the Indigenous people were paying for access to power (like a tributary), so there’s no expectation of returning a like gift. The indigenous people thought they were entering into a mutual relationship, and when a like gift wasn’t returned that was seen as reneging, so they took back their ‘offer’.
Glad to have an anthropologist kick my ass.