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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1725097, member: 26302&quot;]I am just saying its very dangerous to call other cultures less advanced simply because they didn&#039;t believe exactly what Europeans did. In fact, almost everything European colonial people changed with their &quot;superior knowledge&quot; was wrong. It was other cultures that had it right all along, and European thought was simply wrong. This is including cooking practices, water techniques, medical advances, etc. Around the world the &quot;less civilized&quot; people who were colonized are to this day paying the price for the wrong ideas imposed upon them by their &quot;more civilized&quot; European conquerers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding gold, yes today we TREAT IT as a monetary instrument effectively. Step back and think about that though. Its kind of silly we just arbitrarily chose some soft metal, isn&#039;t it? I know we had to choose SOMETHING, but to say that other cultures do not accept our silly random choice of a monetary instrument and instead chose their own arbitrary one, and then to say the are &quot;less advanced&quot; because they didn&#039;t make the same choice as us, is not only insulting but really very silly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, not meaning to pick on you Tinpot, as I doubt you meant it that way. I just wanted to post this since many people had said similar. Bottom line, middle easterners arbitratrily chose gold as a monetary store thousands of years ago. They taught this to the Greeks and Europeans, and we have done it ever since. Just because another culture did not make this same ARBITRARY choice does not make them &quot;backward&quot;. To say so a person is claiming cultural superiority, something I find repugnant. All cultures are equal and equally fascinating in my eyes. </p><p><br /></p><p>ANother way to look at it is the Chinese have long valued jade much more highly than westerners. Are WE the truly backward ones? Who is right? The answer is no one is &quot;right&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot;, just different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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