[MD] From each... to each

[Heather Perella]

Hello Craig, and others,

>  [Arlo] 
> > Pirsig had also written, "Similarly, Choctaw,
> Tunica, the Keresian Pueblo 
> > Indians and many other people make no
> terminological distinction between blue > and
> green." Was this because no one, biologically, among
> these tribes had the 
> > necessary receptors in their eyes to make this
> distinction? According to 
> > Pirsig, it is because their culture did not value
> such a distinction, and so 
> > the language did not reflect it, and so those
> assimiliating the culture do not 
> > value it. 
> 
> This is a great counter-example to Arlo's theory. 
> Show a blue card & a green card to a member of one
> of the afore-mentioned tribes.  Then give them a
> deck of such cards & tell them to separate the cards
> that look most like the first from those that look
> most like the second.  He or she will be able to do
> so DESPITE NOT HAVING A DIFFERENT WORD FOR THE TWO
> COLORS NOR THE CULTURE'S VALUING THE DISTINCTION
> BETWEEN THEM.  Why?  Because he or she experiences
> the difference in color.

     Craig your missing the point.  Each of these
culture's obviously have seen these different colors,
but do not value their difference enough to name them
differently.  These cultures will not separate the
cards distinctly by color.  There is no distinction by
color.
     How many times have you seen snow?  How many
different varieties of snow do you see and name?  The
Inuit have 10's upon 10's upon 10's of them, I'm not
sure of the exact number at this time, but I believe
the point in the course I took on this showed that the
Inuit had maybe 100 different names for snow and we in
the U.S. have no where near that many names for snow. 
The same for tribes in the Sudan.  They have around
100 different names for cattle due to cattle having
such a central role in their culture.  The cattle mean
much more in a number of many more different ways to
these tribes than the majority of U.S. citizens.  Yet,
we see snow and cattle very frequently in certain
regions of this country.  Why the difference?  Value

SA 

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