Remember that article I wrote about being very self-conscious in the use of terms like "tribal", "ethnic" and "primitive"?
Here's why.
I'm not sure there's any way to transition from people being treated worse than wild animals by governments who can't begin to understand that a way of life different from their own could possibly be fulfilling. So I guess that constitutes the post for today.
Oh, except to say that the whole kerfuffle started over a boycott of tourism in the swimming-pool-equipped safari lodges that are blocking Bushmen from access to their drinking water and -- here's the jewelry bit -- Botswana diamonds.
You will probably hear me emphasize this again: Please, please, if you do mean to buy a diamond, know where it comes from. Don't give your money to people who are brutalizing indigenous cultures.
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