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Cultural differences (was: upset at nanny -- vent)
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Tine Andersen wrote: "Liz S. Reynolds" wrote in message ... In article , Tine Andersen wrote: mmm. I hear it's not really green. :*) I'm not being judgemental - we have our issues here as well with Greenland. -Liz I believe it was named by some viking who arrived there during the short summer. It was green. I'd read it was called that by the Eric the Red, to attract colonists from Iceland. Sort of early marketing. I'm under the impression though that despite the name, Iceland has a milder climate than Greenland, so they got rooked. The summer must be pretty green to grow enough food to support life for the rest of the year, my grandfather lived there a number of years, the photos are b&w, but they sure don't look like they'd have been green in color. -Liz |
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"Liz S. Reynolds" wrote in message
... In article , Tine Andersen wrote: "Liz S. Reynolds" wrote in message ... In article , Tine Andersen wrote: mmm. I hear it's not really green. :*) I'm not being judgemental - we have our issues here as well with Greenland. -Liz I believe it was named by some viking who arrived there during the short summer. It was green. I'd read it was called that by the Eric the Red, to attract colonists from Iceland. Sort of early marketing. I'm under the impression though that despite the name, Iceland has a milder climate than Greenland, so they got rooked. The summer must be pretty green to grow enough food to support life for the rest of the year, my grandfather lived there a number of years, the photos are b&w, but they sure don't look like they'd have been green in color. I don't think they have much agriculture in Greenland. They have to import vegetables. They used to live from animals, mostly. Tine, Denmark |
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Cultural differences (was: upset at nanny -- vent)
"Circe" wrote in message news:Y0sWb.39169$QJ3.36800@fed1read04...
Er, 35 years ago, I was 4 years old. I'm reasonably sure that Negro was in disfavor by then. I believe "colored" was actually the favored term by that time. That said, Negro was *always* a word with negative implications because it was coined and used at a time when black people were considered so inferior in the US that it was okay to enslave them. For obvious reasons, most people in the US now want to dissociate themselves from that term and all its baggage. -- Be well, Barbara (Julian [6], Aurora [4], and Vernon's [23 mos.] mom) Well, I'm the same age, and remember clearly advertising for the United Negro College Fund. I don't remember "colored" so much as "black" or, for a time in the 70's (an all around peculiar decade!) "Afro American". Of course, I grew up in the midwest. |
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Cultural differences
Meaning of Place Name: Greenland
Greenland: The name given by Eric the Red in 983 to the sheltered nook where he founded his colony from Iceland, thinking that "much people will go thither if the land has a pleasant name." The name is not altogether unsuitable, as the place chosen by Eric for the settlement which he named Greenland is the pleasantest spot in the country, a smooth grassy plain at the head of Igaliko fiord, near the modern Julianshaab. The name was afterwards inappropriately extended to the whole ice-clad country. I found this in: http://www.sacklunch.net/placenames/G/Greenland.html Liz S. Reynolds wrote: In article , Tine Andersen wrote: mmm. I hear it's not really green. :*) I'm not being judgemental - we have our issues here as well with Greenland. -Liz |
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Cultural differences (was: upset at nanny -- vent)
"lunchlady" wrote in message om... "Circe" wrote in message news:Y0sWb.39169$QJ3.36800@fed1read04... Er, 35 years ago, I was 4 years old. I'm reasonably sure that Negro was in disfavor by then. I believe "colored" was actually the favored term by that time. That said, Negro was *always* a word with negative implications because it was coined and used at a time when black people were considered so inferior in the US that it was okay to enslave them. For obvious reasons, most people in the US now want to dissociate themselves from that term and all its baggage. -- Be well, Barbara (Julian [6], Aurora [4], and Vernon's [23 mos.] mom) Well, I'm the same age, and remember clearly advertising for the United Negro College Fund. I don't remember "colored" so much as "black" or, for a time in the 70's (an all around peculiar decade!) "Afro American". Of course, I grew up in the midwest. The United Negro College Fund was founded in 1943, so that name was well-established by the 60s and 70s. I remember the ads ("a mind is a terrible thing to waste") and the Fund, but I wouldn't use that as a guide for the usage of "Negro." |
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