Don't bow at me (November 10, 1907)
Don't bow at me (November 10, 1907)
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hope youre all dojnf well. much love to thr transcribers and everubody else.
The term remained in use as a technical ethnic term in anthropological and historiographical literature into the late 1980s.
It's hard to fault him there in the early 1900s when it was an "accepted" scientific term until nearly a century later. Thank you for sharing that link 'cause that's a new one to me!
I mean, we can fault him while still recognising that it's of its time, but it always was a racist term, being accepted by the same exclusive (read: white European) community of scientists who coined and normalised it (and I'm sure never consulted the people it refers to) really isn't a good indication that it wasn't.
Either way, it was a new one to me too but I had a feeling so I looked it up, and once confirmed I thought it was important that people were aware of what it actually meant before they consider sharing it further or obliviously using the word. Not having a go at anyone really.
I'm almost certain this term was used in at least one Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Yet another L for Everett. Probably will keep this one up so people get educated on the term and why not to use it.
He was very much a man of his era
Yeah, that's all I was going for, not criticising you for sharing it or anything, but I think it's important that people know.
A shame Condo went for that term to finish the gag. Possibly because South Africa was in the news a lot around that time. It would have made more sense to refer to bows as in European royalty, or bows in ballet or English folk dancing.
@Rolando @ShareMySims I mean, I don't think it was understood as a slur at the time. It's not like anyone in the US knew the correct endonym "Khoekhoe" and was choosing to use a different term "Hottentot" instead in order to express contempt.
But characterizing bowing as an excessively servile action characteristic of a "primitive" people is in and of itself problematic.