Black Face, Brown Face, Red Face, Blue Face

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Epidemiologist up at OHSU worked with the Warm Springs on a project quantifying the relative level of risk of eating their traditional diet including a lot of salmon contaminated with PCBs, vs. adopting Western dietary practices (it turns out that you should eat the contaminated salmon, seriously, it's WAY less bad for you) so they adopted him. And his research assistant.

Go near a reservation and odds are pretty high that, if they weren't already tribe members, they've ceremonially adopted their doctor, schoolteacher, and the mechanic just outside of town.

I mean, some tribe adopted Kevin Costner.

I had an interesting FB convo with Twidsister a couple of months ago.

She mentioned "Wind That Shakes the Barley" and something something about it being classified as a British movie even though it was about Irish Republicanism.

I pointed out that both the writer and the director were both British nationals, and therefore it was in fact a British film.

She felt foolish and deleted the thread (she's 16). I thought it was good. Not the least of which, I may have killed a bit of prejudice in her. Even if the entire cast was British, well, good on the actors. It's not exactly a comfortable topic. I thought that it was excellent that two subjects of the Queen saw fit to tell a story that said, "We were dicks"

[Cain]

The British left has long had the same conclusions as the Irish republicans - that Northern Ireland is a British colony, as part of a project to dominate and extricate wealth from Ireland as part of a standard pattern of colonial conquest and exploitation.

They may not be keen on the armed struggle, but, well, there was a reason why Blair, who in every other respect was a violent neoimperialist, was the one to negotiate the power-sharing agreement on Good Friday.  Labour Party pressure and Clinton's desire for Irish lovin' a legacy, anyway.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Dammit Cain, now I hear Clinton's voice in my head asking if the carpet matches the curtains. 

[GrannySmith]

hylierandom, great "emoticon"!  Well, that first sentence of mine that ended up in an irrelevant conversation was my poorly aimed attempt to be funny - as was the generalisations thing..o well, i fully agree with everything and i drop it too

It happened, according to Wikipedia, after he landed the role.  Basically, the Comanche chief or leader or spokesperson or whatever wanted to hitch their flag to Depp for the purposes of....I dunno, greater publicity or something?  Improved media access?  Whatever.  Anyway, the sequence of events was: get the role -> honourary adoption.

Indian tribes very often honorarily adopt people who work closely with them for a period of time. It's a thing.

It's a great thing, i didn't know that!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

hylierandom, great "emoticon"!  Well, that first sentence of mine that ended up in an irrelevant conversation was my poorly aimed attempt to be funny - as was the generalisations thing..o well, i fully agree with everything and i drop it too

It happened, according to Wikipedia, after he landed the role.  Basically, the Comanche chief or leader or spokesperson or whatever wanted to hitch their flag to Depp for the purposes of....I dunno, greater publicity or something?  Improved media access?  Whatever.  Anyway, the sequence of events was: get the role -> honourary adoption.

Indian tribes very often honorarily adopt people who work closely with them for a period of time. It's a thing.

It's a great thing, i didn't know that!

What's great about it? 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

hylierandom, great "emoticon"!  Well, that first sentence of mine that ended up in an irrelevant conversation was my poorly aimed attempt to be funny - as was the generalisations thing..o well, i fully agree with everything and i drop it too

It happened, according to Wikipedia, after he landed the role.  Basically, the Comanche chief or leader or spokesperson or whatever wanted to hitch their flag to Depp for the purposes of....I dunno, greater publicity or something?  Improved media access?  Whatever.  Anyway, the sequence of events was: get the role -> honourary adoption.

Indian tribes very often honorarily adopt people who work closely with them for a period of time. It's a thing.

It's a great thing, i didn't know that!

What's great about it? 

"Great thing", "great "emoticon"", not sure what to make of all that either...

[Cain]

English isn't, as far as I'm aware, GrannySmith's first language.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

English isn't, as far as I'm aware, GrannySmith's first language.

Ah OK, that makes more sense then.

[GrannySmith]

True, english is not my first language! By "it's great" I mean "I like that" if that makes more sense

What i like about honorary adoption is that (i think) it implies a definition of "tribe" that is not only genetic. I like that a lot.
The emoticon i thought it was funny