Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:20:30 -0800
From: "C. J. S. Wallia" <cjwallia-AT-indiastar.com>
Subject: Re: Naipaul's "Beyond Belief"



Dr. Dubem Okafor wrote:

<< This is not a contribution as such to the discussion of Naipaul, or any
 such self-serving temporizer, acting/writing as
 (unwitting)handmaiden/agent of cultural imperialism. But a reading of Sam
 Joshi's brief posting forces me to observe that it is, indeed, tragically
 sad that postcolonials should, themselves, through use and repetition of
 such terms as "1/16 Arabian," etc., be perpetuating the racialist
 and anachronistic idiocy of Darwinists who would measure the
 constitutent blood drops of human beings in order to conveniently
 consign them to inferiorized chromatistic categories. I think it ought
 to be our duty to denounce and destroy such nonsense, not proliferate it.

Joe Clarke wrote:
<I'm not sure that the initial post was *perpetuating the idiocy of Darwinists*
<rather than coming to a sort of realization, a kind of acknowledgement. There
<was, if you read closely, a bit of irony in peoples telling of their personal
<stories, where the invention of muslim ancestry was involved. And for that
<matter, how do you get from *muslim (psychological/cultural) imperialism*  to
<*Darwinism.* There's a bit of eurocentrism by default for you......
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I completely agree with Joe Clarke.
c.j.

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