Hey Glenn,
> >RICK
> >I can't do much with the bit about the Hopi's because I have a really
hard
> >time understanding what he means when he says they have no concept of
time.
GLENN
> I'll say. But I have a hard time believing the Natchez' problem with
> blue-green, too. It doesn't seem like there would be any cultural
> reason for this lack of visual color discrimination. The only reasonable
> explanation for this, assuming it's true at all and not bad science, is
> that the tribe has a genetic disposition to blue-green color blindness.
RICK
Maybe so many Natchez are genetically b/g colorblind that the difference got
'written out' of their cultural definitions of what is real and unreal. So
even a Natchez with the ability to see both blue and green are rendered
blind to it by the effect we've been discussing.... maybe not.
'Chatting' with you has been quite refreshing. So few 'round these parts
seem interested in textual analysis.
thanks
rick
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