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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Curiosity
Message-ID: <614@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 15:49:41 GMT
References: <598@mccc.UUCP> <2398@ttidca.TTI.COM> <603@mccc.UUCP> <857@actnyc.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <857@actnyc.UUCP> gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
...
...There are, of course, no "barbarians" as such.  The word is a value
...judgment on the behavior of individuals; so, by definition, barbarians
...have bad manners.
...
...When the Romans burned cities and exterminated populations, they
...called it "civilization."  When the German tribes began to give
...the Romans a dose of their own medicine, the Romans borrowed the
...Greek term for non-Greeks, and its deprecatory connotation, and
...called the Germans names.


Do I detect a pro-German/anti-Roman bias there, Fitch?  :-)  Seriously,
don't the WWII Nazis qualify as barbarians under any definition?