concordia, falafel, and wanna-be colonialists

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

In a message dated 9/13/02 10:29:37 AM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com 
writes:
Marc Rodrigues wrote:
>does anyone know of any other examples in history where the colonizing
>european population attempted to co-opt the culture of the indigenous
>population like this?
>

I'm trying to think of one that didn't.  Obviously, to start a list, the 
Brits in India, the Brits in the Americas, the French in the Americas, the 
Americans with African slaves and again and again with Black culture--to the 
point that Bernice Johnson Reagon of SNCC once said (to exasperated gasps 
from the audience) that America is, culturally, a Black country. 

Jenny Brown