On 7/5/2018 9:40 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
On 07/05/18 18:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:27:09 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
Take a village of people. They live mostly on wild berries.
Because of course a community of people living on one food is so
realistic. Even the Eskimos and Inuit, living in some of the harshest
environments on earth, managed to have a relatively wide variety of foods
in their diet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_cuisine
Pedantics again. Didn't even get the point before tearing apart the
*analogy* rather than the *point itself*.
The irony of both Steven's interruption and your reaction is that the
Inuit story somewhat supports your point:
"There has been a decline of hunting partially due to the fact that
young people lack the skills to survive off the land. "
-- because they are 'growing more accustomed to the Qallunaat ("white
people") food that they receive from the south.'
If 'white people' food stopped coming, they would starve where they are.
But change scenarios that assume that everything else remains the same
are flawed. Maintaining traditional skills comes up in every culture
that is changing, which now is most all. But the same dynamism tends to
generate new solutions where needed.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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