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Man Sells Daughter For Meat, Beer
New York, 5:23 PM
Sun Nov 29
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01/13/09
/anthropology nerdery.
01/14/09
thank youI found that interesting.
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Duffman... thinks you're an asshole!
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Lock Ann Coulter and this colossal asshat in a room together and let them eat each other, Lord of the Flies style.
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My point being that the writer hints at a deeper issue but only tantalizes us. Or the editor took it out.
01/13/09
I worked for her when she worked in L.A. County. I knew some day she'd be exposed as the obnoxious incompetent she really was.
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"In recent years, Greenfield has seen a massive influx of immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Many Oaxacans speak indigenous languages not related to English or Spanish and as a result, find communication with the large Spanish-speaking and smaller English-speaking population impossible. Probably the largest single block of such immigrants are speakers of the Copala Triqui language, who are fleeing from poverty and an armed conflict in their native region that has been going on for over 20 years. It is estimated that around 3,500 indigenous people live in Greenfield, or about 20% of the population."
So, the people involved were from an environment where girls marry very young and dowries are still common. This wasn't a case of some Fritzel-style nutball.
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If you read an article that quoted a cop saying something like "Many women are involved in polygmaous marriages in Anytown, USA", wouldn't you wonder if there was some FLDS offshoot in that town? Or maybe that a huge number of refugees from Darfur or Somalia had suddenly been resettled there? Wouldn't you check to see if that were the case? If there were something along any of those lines, wouldn't you think those facts were a relevant point to add?
01/13/09
What I find way offensive is your idea that someone reading the very, very sketchy article that I, at least, initially read would not be curious to know if this crime took place in a different cultural context than mainstream American culture in which case it makes more sense than the random sale of a teenage girl by her father to some guy for meat and beer.
In this case what I also see is offensive is the way that the article is pandering to the salaciousness of how a man might get a teenager for meat and beer rather than a spotlight on a cultural tradition being practiced in the U.S. that is actually against the law here. Heck. It may even be against the law in Oaxaca for all we know from this article but still practiced there by members of a non-mainstream cultural group.
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