fire flute n.10
hundred percent American
The average American wakes up in a bed built to a design which originated in the Near East. He pulled back the sheets and blankets that can be cotton, plant native to India, or flax, a plant native to the Near East, or sheep's wool, animal originally domesticated in the Near East, or silk, whose use was discovered in China. All these materials have been invented yarns and fabrics according to procedures in the Near East. He puts on his moccasins invented by Indians in the wooded lands of the East, and goes to the bathroom, whose accessories are a mix of European and American inventions, both of recent date. Takes off his pajamas, a garment invented in India, and washes with soap invented by the ancient Gauls. Then he shaves, a masochistic rite which seems to be derived from the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians.
Back in the bedroom, took his clothes from a chair to the model was developed in southern and dresses. She wears garments whose form originally derived from the leather-clad nomads of the Steppes of-Asia, puts on shoes made of leather, dyed by a process invented in ancient Egypt, cut according to a model derived from the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean, you put a strip around the neck with bright colors which is a surviving vestige of shawls that were holding back on the Croats of the seventeenth century. [...]
Going to breakfast stops to buy a newspaper, paying with currencies which are an ancient Lydian invention. The restaurant is in contact with a whole new set of elements from other cultures: its plate is made of a type of pottery invented in China, and his knife is of steel, an alloy made for the first time in South India, Italian medieval origins of the fork, the spoon is a derivative of the original Roman Empire. It takes its coffee, Abyssinian plant, with cream and sugar. Both the idea of \u200b\u200bbreeding cows to milk them originated in the Near East, while sugar was mined in India for the first time. After the fruit and coffee, eat waffles, cakes, according to a Scandinavian technique, wheat, a native of Asia Minor. [...]
When our friend has finished eating, leans back in his chair and smoking, according to American Indian habit, consuming a plant domesticated in Brazil or smoking a pipe, derived from Indian of Virginia or a cigarette, derived from Mexico. It can also smoke a cigar, transmitted to us from the West Indies, through Spain. While smoking reads the news of the day, printed in characters invented by the ancient Semites upon a material invented in China and by a process invented in Germany. While reading the accounts of the problems which trouble abroad, if it is a good conservative citizen, an Indo-European language, thank a Hebrew deity to have done it one hundred percent American.
Ralph Linton, The study of man - Il Mulino 1973
The anthopologist Ralph Linton (Philadelphia, 27 February 1893 - New Haven, December 24, 1953) Was one of the Most Respected American anthropologists of the mid-twentieth century of His Time, and Particularly Is Remembered for His texts The Study of Man (1936) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Linton
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Notes
This song American anthropologist Ralph Linton, who could be called "One hundred per cent Italian," shows us that our traditions are the sum of customs and traditions of different mischiatesi populations or been in contact in the past. It 'important to be aware of this because the lack Information is a great tool for those forces who lives on fear.
who often speaks for the defense of their traditions, they do not know anything, that defense is generally reduces the translation of road signs in local dialects.
During the period of my approach to ethnomusicology I met several people and a serious commitment for years, ethnological and historical research in Italy and abroad, and it is significant to note that none of them ever speaks of "preserving the traditions" , if anything, study and understanding, which requires enormous energy and expertise.
Linton makes us reflect with humor and simplicity, quality that we so badly need in a country where they often shout "racist" with the same hatred and intolerance of the same racist themselves.
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