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I have been watching 20/20 tonight and it has me so moved
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 469835" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Janet, native leaders were chosen by the people. It was not a birth right, therefore, it sort of kills the whole princess thing. Now south americans might have been different.....I don't know much about their cultures as I haven't had much than passing interest. </p><p></p><p>That doesn't mean you great how many greats wasn't married to the daughter of the chief, just means she wasn't a princess in any sense of the word. She was just like everyone else, just her dad had a leadership position. Just as chief, was just as equal to anyone else, he just had a position of leadership. This is one of the areas where the two cultures differ so greatly that it's actually really hard to explain. </p><p></p><p>There is two ways to look at it. From the European point of view, your great grandmother was a "princess" because they viewed her as the daughter of a "ruler", but from the native point of view, she wasn't. Europeans just assumed every culture worked the same as theirs, but they don't. So it depends on who is looking at the facts. Know what I mean?? Not trying to ruffle your feathers, just trying to explain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 469835, member: 84"] Janet, native leaders were chosen by the people. It was not a birth right, therefore, it sort of kills the whole princess thing. Now south americans might have been different.....I don't know much about their cultures as I haven't had much than passing interest. That doesn't mean you great how many greats wasn't married to the daughter of the chief, just means she wasn't a princess in any sense of the word. She was just like everyone else, just her dad had a leadership position. Just as chief, was just as equal to anyone else, he just had a position of leadership. This is one of the areas where the two cultures differ so greatly that it's actually really hard to explain. There is two ways to look at it. From the European point of view, your great grandmother was a "princess" because they viewed her as the daughter of a "ruler", but from the native point of view, she wasn't. Europeans just assumed every culture worked the same as theirs, but they don't. So it depends on who is looking at the facts. Know what I mean?? Not trying to ruffle your feathers, just trying to explain. [/QUOTE]
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