a word of clarification on my posts in this thread: by posing my rather minimally scoped question i might have falsely implied that i understand what it means to make generalizations about "white", "black", "indian", etc. i do not. fwiw.
--ravi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.