I'm thinking that I definitely have to take a Central/South American history class at some point. You guys have all this interesting history that I only vaguely know about - I mean, Spanish/Portuguese colonization, some interesting stuff going on with Portugal/Brazil (didn't the royal family live in the New World for a while?), lots of revolutions and stuff... Yeah.
Oh, and we don't often say "aborigens" (unless it's pronounced "ab-or-ige-an-eez"), but "aboriginals" or "natives". (At least up here in North America). I think that the word "aboriginals" refers to other countries' native peoples and not our own North American ones (Cree, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Salish, etc.,etc.), but I'm not sure. I'm quite interested in the topic of native studies, though. I should take a class or two on that as well...
I'll have to check those videos out! I'm heading off to work in like fifteen minutes, so... yeah. :) But I look forward to looking at them when I get back! :D
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Date: 2009-06-21 01:50 pm (UTC)Oh, and we don't often say "aborigens" (unless it's pronounced "ab-or-ige-an-eez"), but "aboriginals" or "natives". (At least up here in North America). I think that the word "aboriginals" refers to other countries' native peoples and not our own North American ones (Cree, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Salish, etc.,etc.), but I'm not sure. I'm quite interested in the topic of native studies, though. I should take a class or two on that as well...
I'll have to check those videos out! I'm heading off to work in like fifteen minutes, so... yeah. :) But I look forward to looking at them when I get back! :D