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We wikl never understand...

posted 8 years ago by juacas
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Our indigenous South American cultures, no matter how much we study them today... because the real moment to do it was 500 hundred years ago, back then was the moment was truly the time to learn from them but instead the Spanish for 300 years destroyed everything on their path. And with our new republics we've been doing the same thing for 200 years and no one says a word about. There are too many people in our forests and jungles just like Karamakate, being the last person of their tribe just waiting to disappear in oblivion.

[–] vortexrider 8 years ago

So, what do you believe should have happened in history instead of what actually happened?

[–] PoppyTransfusion 8 years ago

Karamakate, being the last person of their tribe just waiting to disappear in oblivion

The one positive to take from this in the film is that Karamakate waited until the right person arrived to whom he could impart some of the ways and secrets of his people before he died. To me this is an important message in the film; is that people, especially 'white' people learn rather than use.

He kicked me right in the middle of my daily routine

[–] kreiZee 8 years ago

I agree with this sentiment, but if you take into account the missions and "the messiah", it shows that there is a very slim glimmer of hope, as "white" people who learn make up a very small percentage :(

[–] PoppyTransfusion 8 years ago

"white" people who learn make up a very small percentage

True and that seems to apply to learning many other things. Nonetheless I retain hope as anthropologists, botanists and ecologists are trying to promote their ideas even if they are much diluted the further down the river they flow. If we never hope then we have lost and so too those who need us to learn. I write as a white person for whom Karamakate's accusations that white people need their things resonated, as did not listening with the whole of my being.

Ever tried, ever failed?
No matter.
Try again, fail again.
Fail better.

[–] mc_1222 8 years ago

Nonsense, your first mistake is to think that 500 years ago was the time to study some group of people somewhere.
Sorry bud but it's not the first time indigenous people disappeared from somewhere on this planet so spare me your white guilt crap because I'm not buying it.

[–] shurbanm 7 years ago

I'd say spare us your crap. And that is crap for sure.