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Chirac warns of 'African flood'
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:12:40 +0200, Marc Lurie
wrote: On 17 Jul 2006 03:46:35 -0700, "Hooverphonic" wrote: When conflict used to arise a tribe would move on to greener pastures. These days that is impossible without causing conflict, because somebody else is already living there. This is an extremely simplistic view. And while it may have held some merit at some stage, the fact of the matter is that people aren't nomadic any more. There have been no significant numbers of nomads anywhere on earth for the past two hundred years, so your point is completely moot. And most Africans have been settled farmers for many centuries. They may have occasionally moved to greener pastures for various reasons, but most of them were never nomads, at least for the last 1000 years or so. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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Chirac warns of 'African flood'
"B Vaughan" wrote in message
... On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:12:40 +0200, Marc Lurie wrote: On 17 Jul 2006 03:46:35 -0700, "Hooverphonic" wrote: When conflict used to arise a tribe would move on to greener pastures. These days that is impossible without causing conflict, because somebody else is already living there. This is an extremely simplistic view. And while it may have held some merit at some stage, the fact of the matter is that people aren't nomadic any more. There have been no significant numbers of nomads anywhere on earth for the past two hundred years, so your point is completely moot. And most Africans have been settled farmers for many centuries. They may have occasionally moved to greener pastures for various reasons, but most of them were never nomads, at least for the last 1000 years or so. -- But, back in the '50s there were some Chevrolets that were Nomads. KM -- (-:alohacyberian:-) At my website there are 3600 live cameras or visit NASA, the Vatican, the Smithsonian, the Louvre, CIA, FBI or CNN, NBA, the White House, Academy Awards & 150 foreign languages Visit Hawaii, Israel and mo http://keith.martin.home.att.net/ |
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