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16th May 2011 18:12
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Re: Has white man colonised planet Earth?
Why do you think it's mostly been unintentional SID?
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16th May 2011 18:16
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Re: Has white man colonised planet Earth?
The word "Aryan" does indeed predate Hitler. It is a word common to most Indo-European languages, where it refers to heritage, especially the shared heritage of kinship groups. The word 'Aryan' is cognate with 'Iran', which literally means "our home", with the emphasis on 'our' as a representation of kinship and heritage. If Hitler has dirtied the word it's unfortunate, but the term has a long history independent of him, and until him it did not have negative connotations any more than words like "self", "kin"/"kith", &c., nor did it have any connotation of superiority, it meant what it meant and it included no judgement of worth or value.
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16th May 2011 18:18
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