REPLY: tribal/ethnic/language groups

Mel Page (PAGEM@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU)
Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:21:56 GMT-5

Date sent: Thu, 01 Jun 1995
From: Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College
<RLOBBAN@grog.ric.edu>

Still More on "tribe" I was thinking about Harold Marcus' point that the
term is used in Africa by Africans...Well just becuasue that is the case does
not make it right or wrong, but it is only evidence in the discussion.
Naturally the word is not of African origin so they have only learned or
incoporated the term as a result of colonizatrion/colonization and language
(foreign) acquisition. True there is a danger of paternalism here.. i.e.
we know what is good for you, but still this important discussion should
continue.