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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Willing Thinker {What Box}: [QB] Hello Maahes. I must compliment you on your post, well done. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Maahes: I think many of you will appreciate the [b]great attention to detail[/b] we have included in this project. [/QUOTE]^Sounds good. : [QUOTE] Maahes: The Egyptian army is made up of different battalions and troops of widely different ethnicities. [/QUOTE]Yes, the nation itself was made up of a number of different African ethnicities. [QUOTE] The Fort Buhen Troops are of one dark brown ethnicity known as the Irthet. Other troops within the Egyptian army are Wawat, Dinka and Saite etc. Each division is made obvious by facial features, face paint, weaponry and regalia. [/QUOTE]Sounds awesome. [QUOTE]We are obviously celebrating the great ethnic diversity of 18th dynasty Egypt- [b]not reducing it to short-sighted[/b] Eurocentric notions.[/QUOTE]That sounds great too. I also agree that Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism both take erroneous approaches. [QUOTE] Afrocentricism is an appendange of Eurocentricsm. [/QUOTE]Their view is unscientific, and their methods illogical in many respects. I do agree that they have the same root causes of error - the cause not necessarily being that they view a world in black and white – they don’t. Their err is that their view is mired in a world full of simplistic and fault ‘races’, be they, Caucasoid, Negroid, or Mediterranean. [QUOTE] Most Egyptians continue to identify themselves by their religion, region, clan or tribal affinities. They do not really comprehend the western obsession with classifying people in tiny anectdated boxes. '[/QUOTE]This we know; and good for them. [QUOTE] This preconception with 'light-skinned' and 'dark-skinned' has a tendency to obscure the greater topics- the history of humanity […] If one opens their minds to the naturalistic philosophies and artistic expression of the ancient people of the region and places value in the words and deeds of these peoples, the issue of colour vanishes altogether. [/QUOTE]Agreed, and no problem here, I tend not to be too mentally confined, as my moniker asks, in response to that saying “think outside the box”: “What Box?” [QUOTE] From the great history of the ancients perhaps we will transform this guiless, materialistic and violent reality we live in today.[/QUOTE]Things will not stay the same. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [b]By the way, I'm not black or of African descent but I too notice the irreputable damage racism has done (especially to a few individuals who post in this forum with things like Afro-Iranians and Afro-Celts)!! LOL[/b][/QUOTE]I disagree. It is not irreputable in my opinion, so long as people continue to have minds. And don’t forget the damage has not affected African American minds only. It has not left out white Americans. However, I see hope in my (18) generation. Yes, some cluelessness, but I see hope aswell. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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