{"id":72277,"date":"2012-07-12T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T06:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17318"},"modified":"2012-07-12T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T06:45:28","slug":"native-americans-are-not-special-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/12\/native-americans-are-not-special-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Americans are not special snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dienekes, in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinganthropologically.com\/2012\/07\/12\/earliest-americans-bones-anthropology\/\">Living Anthropologically<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dienekes.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/petty-identity-politics-indeed-or.html\">Petty identity politics indeed, or, holding a grudge is no excuse for anti-science<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I won&#8217;t argue about the veracity or details of this version of history, but surely native Americans from the US were not\u00a0<em>especially\u00a0<\/em>mistreated compared to other people colonized by Europeans?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there are now samples from Native Australians, East Indians, Sub-Saharan Africans, Native Americans from all over the Americas except the US.\u00a0<strong>Why don&#8217;t all these people not &#8220;hold a grudge&#8221; for their bad treatment at the hands of Europeans, but, apparently, are perfectly willing to participate in genetic research if it&#8217;s explained to them how they might learn more about their ancestors from it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, why limit ourselves to people colonized by Europeans? Surely, Slavs, for example, have a lot of things to say about German\u00a0<em>Rassenkunde\u00a0<\/em>scientists belittling them, studying their skulls to &#8220;prove&#8221; they are an inferior race, and hatching up and executing plans for their annihilation.\u00a0<strong>So, why do the Russians give the Denisova fingerbone to ze\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eva.mpg.de\/denisova\/\">Max Planck<\/a>folks to study, or allow them to study ancient DNA from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-mainz.de\/FB\/Biologie\/Anthropologie\/MolA\/English\/Research\/CentralAsia.html\">all over<\/a>\u00a0their territory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scour the literature for a while, and you&#8217;ll find plenty of (modern) Germans studying Jews, and Jews studying pretty much everybody, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dienekes, in response to Living Anthropologically, Petty identity politics indeed, or, holding a grudge is no excuse for anti-science:<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t argue about the veracity or details of this version of history, but surely native Americans from the U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-native-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72277"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72687,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277\/revisions\/72687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}