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Tlaloc wrote:Perhaps Marbach and Tourte provide an example of this in Alpine Caving Techniques. They dismiss all American vertical techniques in one paragraph which describes them as a product of our degenerate culture, using a rasist epithet.
Tlaloc wrote:Would you write a technical manual that attributed some other techniques to someone's inferior cultural philosophy rather than discussing the substance of the subject at hand? If you were French, you would. Ask your nearest Frenchman what they mean when they describe us as "Anglo-Saxonne".
Isn't this the kind of ethnocentrist dogmatic narrow minded thinking that the OP was discussing?
Isn't this the kind of ethnocentrist dogmatic narrow minded thinking that the OP was discussing?
The purpose of this book is not to discuss every American technique in minute detail; others have already done this, and their authors were quite knowledgeable on the subject. Our perspective is more or less that of an outsider, but it is interesting nonetheless for us to have some understanding of these techniques.
Only time will tell. If it ever happens that one climbing method comes to reign supreme, it will likely be a similar compromise between the two principle techniques [i.e. American and French].
Extremeophile wrote:Those of us of English descent can call each other Anglo Saxon, but it's derogatory when it comes from the French. As a rule I will continue to unilaterally despise the French until this racism ends.
Tlaloc wrote:Perhaps Marbach and Tourte provide an example of this in Alpine Caving Techniques. They dismiss all American vertical techniques in one paragraph which describes them as a product of our degenerate culture, using a rasist epithet.
Yes, exactly! Those of us of English descent can call each other Anglo Saxon, but it's derogatory when it comes from the French. As a rule I will continue to unilaterally despise the French until this racism ends.
Chads93GT wrote:The racist comment has to get the award for the dumbests post of the century.
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