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From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: derogatory words
Message-ID: <5283@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-May-85 16:01:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: fortune.5283
Posted: Fri May 17 16:01:50 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 18-May-85 02:37:29 EDT
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Reply-To: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry polard)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

In article <906@hou2h.UUCP> rotimi@hou2h.UUCP (R.GBADAMOSI) writes:
>Does anyone out there know why people talk about tribes only when referring
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>to African peoples?

Really?  You mean the Germanic tribes were really Africans, as are the American Indians and the tribes in India, the rest of Asia, New Guinea and other areas
and times when there were no centralized governments?

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