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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Super car: [QB] [QUOTE]Djehuti: Actually Supercar, it depends on what one means by "Hamitic"! The problem really isn't the word itself but how one uses the word. We all know that Hamite once referred to 'black-caucasians' and we all know that this is utterly ridiculous and such a thing doesn't exist. But remember, the term 'Hamite' was first used by white people originally as a synonym for 'negro' or black African, and it wasn't until all the inaccurate anthropology that it became 'black caucasoid'. You must realize that instead of throwing out the term all together, there are scholars that are trying to reform and redefine it to its orignal more accurate meaning before the 'caucasoid' craze which was simply black African.[/QUOTE] Yes, I am aware of the history of the 'Hamitic' term, and how some people talk of biblical stories and the so-called curse et al, just as I am aware of the 19th century logic-free hypothesis of placing 'Hamite' origins in some ambiguous region in some unknown timeframe, and their ambiguous migration into east Africa, again during some ambiguous time. Fact is, whatever the original reference of 'Hamite', it will always have the black mark of bad anthropology. As such, those folks who desperately try to revitalize its 'original' meaning, should be prepared for much hard work ahead; science has long moved forward, since the dismissal of the term as a mere myth. [This message has been edited by Super car (edited 01 May 2005).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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