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In reply to the discussion: Readers of Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" react to the Cheerios ad featuring an interracial couple. [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)30. Hehe. I hear you.
But the Andaman Islands are tops on the planet for homogeneity and intolerance. Seriously, I was recently watching The Sign of the Four (Grenada Productions, starring Jeremy Brett, the best Holmes ever, imho), and I did some research on the Andamans because one of the central characters in the novel is from that culture. These are some seriously homogenous and intolerant people (for some very good reasons, mind you).
If you're curious, you might want to check them out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese_people
Until 1996, the Jarawa met most visitors with flying arrows. From time to time they attacked and killed poachers on the lands reserved to them by the Indian government. They also killed some workers building the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), which traverses Jarawa lands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese_people#Recent_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese_people#Recent_history
The Andamanese are, as Holmes famously (and ironically) noted, "Nice, amiable people." They remind me of the people who post on Beck's site. I figured the two groups would get along famously with one another.
-Laelth
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Readers of Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" react to the Cheerios ad featuring an interracial couple. [View all]
LuckyTheDog
Jun 2013
OP
Not the Andamans... better one of those Pacific atolls only a few feet above sea level.
JHB
Jun 2013
#12
Isn't it weird how all of these comments are pathological psychological defense mechanisms?
ck4829
Jun 2013
#15
I agree. It's not racist to report, accurately, that some people ARE racists and will boycott.
Jim Lane
Jun 2013
#49
OPTIMUM recently added Blaze to TV programming, I'm going to switch providers. But I may give them
JaneyVee
Jun 2013
#25
When the President of the United States is the product ofa white mother and a black father,
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#32
I wouldn't want to waste my time arguing with an idiot, but this comment goes begging
nobodyspecial
Jun 2013
#45
Poor, under-represented, under-powered white people. Makes me heart bleed
Nanjing to Seoul
Jun 2013
#51