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Manu-Koelbren User ID: 29289144 Spain 12/25/2012 11:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? silly anglo-saxons Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28057894 have you ever heard of the gandara civilisation? it is older than the roman empire, they had toilets and plumbing, and it was in punjab most of these people shit outside because they cant afford toilets those that can, have and use them maybe you have never left the US? It's not that they can't afford but they do not have the motivation and drive and ingenuity necessary to get together and create high civilizations. Those people of the ancient civilization you mention were not the same genetic make up of the current ones, people migrate and with them their knowledge. Banned as usual. “It is far easier to be a weakling than to be a Real Man. Were the Earth less harsh or the circumstances of life less austere, man would destroy himself before the shrine of the languid goddess. Only Real Men can with safety destroy the tangled forests and wilderness of Earth and make from them gardens, but will those who inherit the gardens be Real Men? The law decrees that they must be, or the wilderness will reclaim its own.” |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 2768325 France 12/25/2012 11:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Am I missing something?? Ancient Rome = 2000+ years ago Current Indian shitters = 2012 AD. Greece had democracy 2000 years ago while USA is still a banana rebublic. So what? this^^^^^^^^^^ india may have shit everywhere but america as turds with legs and that even drive cars and post on forums like glp xD |
El Quisqueyano User ID: 18653874 United States 12/25/2012 12:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? EQ, Quoting: uscrusader1 No they are not!. Genetically we are all different. The Mongoloid and Austronesian haplogroup C split ~36,000 Quoting: Advances in Anthropology May 2012ybp and populated regions of Central Asia, Australia and Oceania. Haplogroup DE split to D and E around 42,000 ybp, populates from North Africa to the west to Korea and Japan to the east. The family of haplogroup from F through T is largely the Europeoid (Caucasoid) family. And he(the origination point) was not necessarily living in Africa. Since he belonged to a haplogroup up- stream from haplogroups A and B, his haplogroup can be named “alpha-haplogroup”. I don't know what is stopping them. Still doesn't give anyone the right to speak so ill of them. They are you, they are me, they are all of us. Quoting: El Quisqueyano The most important thing to remember, though, is that appearance is a pretty crude indicator of genetics. A few minor changes in a couple genes can result in a drastically different appearance. Biochemistry and physiology (the actual workings of life) are much more complex, so are better indicators of genetic similarity - like a car, you can tell more about it by looking under the hood than simply looking at what color it's painted. When it comes down to biochemistry and physiology, humans across all races are identical, and we have a great deal in common with other mammals (and there are some commonalities to all life, down to the simplest bacteria). |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29981220 Ireland 12/25/2012 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Roman were aware that lead could poison people and pipes in roman cities were designed to constantly flow so water would not sit and react with the lead pipes, also the mineral rich watere would leave a coating in the internal pipeworks so this reduced the possibility of lead poisoning. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1096472 United States 12/25/2012 12:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? It all comes down to superior European culture and knowledge. It's something that the ball-less Liberal media has tried to suppress and will call you a racist if you bring it up, but it's the truth. Quoting: Fighting Spartan This is the very reason that civilizations like Greece, Rome and the United States have all flourished, while backward ignorant society's like India (worshiping cows as gods) and Muslims still live and think in 7th century mentalities. It seems without fail, the issue with people here is often the lack of a secondary education, coupled the lack of any post high school reading. Perhaps even pre- high school reading, depending on locale, and cultural background. If anyone, who was so quick to comment regarding the 'development' of civilizations, had simply understood these differences from a historical, or anthropological background; with this I'm speaking of a basic post high course that explains these basic cultural differences, they wouldn't be using phrases such as "backwards society".. The reason civilizations developed as such, is more a difference in tradition, rather than a technological, or ideological one. Civilizations hadn't developed according to a universal principle, or a rudimentary rule of thumb. This is why you don't fine working plumbing in some older societies, and you will find it in others as far back as warfare had developed amungst other peoples. To understand something like cultural difference would be to understand the reason for all cultural developments, and that would eliminate the simple and crude question you pose here. Meanwhile, those who are keyboard ready with their childlike reasoning, and remedial understanding of cultural anthropology, will continue to embarrass themselves time and again. Please pick up a book, or continue your education, and this will eliminate a lot of your cultural biases, and prejudices. The very simple reason behind posing this ridiculous question is a lack of understanding on such a basic level. I'm not trying to offend anyone, or sound snooty or stuck up, and I am sorry if it came off that way. I just see a very real problem in not understanding why some societies developed certain ways of living at different points, or not at all, and why cultures are different across the world. I truly believe not understanding these differences leads to a real bias to other peoples, other cultures, and creates conflict. We should be respecting others for their differences, and not judging them harshly because they don't all 'live like Americans'. The world is a beautiful and diverse place. You're a moron. In India, they purchase routers, Internet infrastructure and cell phones to modernize their country, but they still crap on the street. I'm pretty sure plumbing is less of a cultural upheaval then the Internet. The only tradition they're following is being f-stupid. |
Captain Spaulding User ID: 20103158 United States 12/25/2012 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Love the place. The food. The women, Tuscany, castle towns, the Amalfi coast, VENICE(!) with no cars(!) in the early spring during and just after Mardi Gras. Florence with the Academia and the Uffizi with David and da Vinci. All the satanic symbolism in the Vatican and the catacombs. The women. More food. Duomo. Art everywhere. Moto Guzzi (by Lake Geneva in the Italian Alps), Ducati, Aprilla. Did I mention the women? |
El Quisqueyano User ID: 18653874 United States 12/25/2012 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD LEWONTIN edited transcript Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most eminent authorities on human diversity. He has written many celebrated books on evolution and human variation books including Human Diversity, Not in Our Genes and most recently, The Triple Helix. Does racial difference exist on a genetic level? Peoples who have occupied major geographical areas for much of the recent evolution of humans look different from one another. Sub-Saharan Africans have dark skin and people who live in East Asia tend to have a light tan skin and an eye color and eye shape and hair that is different than Europeans. So there is this kind of genetic - it is genetic - differentiation of some features of the body between people who live in Central Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. And those features, which are geographically determined, were used to erect notions of different races. There's the African race, the Black race, the Yellow race, the Red race, the Brown race, and the White race. And it's mostly skin color plus hair shape and eye shape and so on. That's the everyday observation, that "they" all look alike - and we all look different. The real question is not whether those differences in skin color and hair form are genetic, because they are. We know that because the children of black slaves brought to North America were the same color as their parents were. The question is what else does that tell us about biological differences? How much difference in other genes beside the genes that are relevant to skin color is there between these major geographical groups? If we want to use the notion of race in a sensible, biological way, we could only do that if there really were a lot of genetic difference between those groups aside from the superficial differences that we can see. And that's an important issue which we now understand. We understand it because over the years a lot of data were gathered by anthropologists and geneticists looking at blood group genes and protein genes and other kinds of genes from all over the world. Anthropologists just went around taking blood out of everybody. I must say, if I were a South American Indian, I wouldn't have let them take my blood, but they did. And one of the consequences of that is by the early 1970s, we had a huge amount of information about the different genetic forms all over the world for a large number of genes that had no relevance to those outward manifestations like skin color, but had to do with blood type and proteins. And when you brought all that together, it became pretty clear that there really were minor differences in the frequencies of the different gene forms between the major geographical so-called races. Since the 20th century, it's been recognized that there's what's called polymorphism of blood type. There are type As and type Bs and type Os and Rh-positive and Rh-negative and so on in every group in the world. But the assumption was that people in Africa would have a very different relative frequency of A and B and O than people would in North America or in Europe and in Asia. And what all these studies showed was that that wasn't true. That you couldn't really tell the difference between an African population and a European population and an Asian population by looking at the frequency, the relative proportions of the different blood types. They were essentially the same in all these groups. That isn't true for every blood type. There are occasional types which are strongly differentiated between populations. There's one blood type called the Duffy blood type and that's very different between Asians, Africans, and Europeans. But that's an exception rather than a rule. For almost every gene we know, either everybody in the world has the same form of the gene, in which case all human beings are the same, or if there's variation, the frequencies of the different variants are the same relatively speaking, close to the same, in Africans, Asians, North Americans, Austro-Asians, and so on. And only about - well, I estimated 7% of all of human genetic variation could be ascribed to differences between groups, between major races. Anyway, about 75% of all the genes [come in only one form and] are identical in everybody. So there's very little differentiation. Link; [link to www.pbs.org] |
Manu-Koelbren User ID: 29289144 Spain 12/25/2012 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? It all comes down to superior European culture and knowledge. It's something that the ball-less Liberal media has tried to suppress and will call you a racist if you bring it up, but it's the truth. Quoting: Fighting Spartan This is the very reason that civilizations like Greece, Rome and the United States have all flourished, while backward ignorant society's like India (worshiping cows as gods) and Muslims still live and think in 7th century mentalities. It seems without fail, the issue with people here is often the lack of a secondary education, coupled the lack of any post high school reading. Perhaps even pre- high school reading, depending on locale, and cultural background. If anyone, who was so quick to comment regarding the 'development' of civilizations, had simply understood these differences from a historical, or anthropological background; with this I'm speaking of a basic post high course that explains these basic cultural differences, they wouldn't be using phrases such as "backwards society".. The reason civilizations developed as such, is more a difference in tradition, rather than a technological, or ideological one. Civilizations hadn't developed according to a universal principle, or a rudimentary rule of thumb. This is why you don't fine working plumbing in some older societies, and you will find it in others as far back as warfare had developed amungst other peoples. To understand something like cultural difference would be to understand the reason for all cultural developments, and that would eliminate the simple and crude question you pose here. Meanwhile, those who are keyboard ready with their childlike reasoning, and remedial understanding of cultural anthropology, will continue to embarrass themselves time and again. Please pick up a book, or continue your education, and this will eliminate a lot of your cultural biases, and prejudices. The very simple reason behind posing this ridiculous question is a lack of understanding on such a basic level. I'm not trying to offend anyone, or sound snooty or stuck up, and I am sorry if it came off that way. I just see a very real problem in not understanding why some societies developed certain ways of living at different points, or not at all, and why cultures are different across the world. I truly believe not understanding these differences leads to a real bias to other peoples, other cultures, and creates conflict. We should be respecting others for their differences, and not judging them harshly because they don't all 'live like Americans'. The world is a beautiful and diverse place. You're a complete fuckwad. You epitomise what people go on about when they talk about 'educated people who think they know everything but know nothing'. Btw amongst [as outdated as it is] is spelled with an o not a u. During the black plague, the Italians started to clue on to the real nature of disease and as a result started to implement quarantines and excellent disease management protocol. Italy was at the forefront of the renaissance - because the people there knew their shit. They were allowed to think freely, and invent freely, funded by burgeoning capitalists and the independent regionally wealthy. No stupid fucking religious 'tradition' was going to stop it from actually having a brain and progressing their culture. As a result of Italy's smarts, the rest of Europe started to implement the protocols and to investigate the REAL nature of disease and eventually the Black Death lost its grip. Medicine, Science and Invention bloomed all across Europe. Meanwhile, the Black death raged for centuries longer in the Islamic world.. and do you know why? Because according to Mohammad, disease was not contagious, and that was not to be argued with. Disease was purely a gift from god. Contagion was not true because the Koran said so. That's why the Islamic world didn't just stay in the dark ages but why they're still there. That's stupidity set in stone, how stupid can you get? Yes appreciate all the diversity of the world, stopping to admire the broad range of 'fuckwit'. It's dogmatic religion that hinders progress for the more advanced races, but for the lower races that stage isn't even reached. Most Pacific aboriginal races , of which the majority of the modern indians belong to, were found living in stone age conditions by the European explorers. This is an undeniable fact. These races when taken out of their natural order of things, just like the African negroes, become like a virus on earth. They don't know how to sustain themselves and breed uncontrollably. These races should have never been disturbed or attempted to include in cultural paradigms that weren't compatible to them. Now this will become our downfall. Banned as usual. “It is far easier to be a weakling than to be a Real Man. Were the Earth less harsh or the circumstances of life less austere, man would destroy himself before the shrine of the languid goddess. Only Real Men can with safety destroy the tangled forests and wilderness of Earth and make from them gardens, but will those who inherit the gardens be Real Men? The law decrees that they must be, or the wilderness will reclaim its own.” |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4861211 United Kingdom 12/25/2012 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? The only reason India is going to be richer than certain countries in the West soon is because all our factories and call centers are based over there now to avoid paying heavy taxes and to rape the use of cheap workers, earning like 1 pence/cent a day. The only thing Indians have going for them, are they're more likely to contribute to the future of the planet than their dirty fucking waste of oxygen, Muslim neighbours. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2768325 France 12/25/2012 12:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Every time I visit Italy I'm amazed at the countless number of awesome fountains and how they're gravity fed and have been that way for over a thousand years. No pumps. No mechanics. Just clever planning and design by truly creative people. Quoting: Captain Spaulding 20103158 Love the place. The food. The women, Tuscany, castle towns, the Amalfi coast, VENICE(!) with no cars(!) in the early spring during and just after Mardi Gras. Florence with the Academia and the Uffizi with David and da Vinci. All the satanic symbolism in the Vatican and the catacombs. The women. More food. Duomo. Art everywhere. Moto Guzzi (by Lake Geneva in the Italian Alps), Ducati, Aprilla. Did I mention the women? and the women r they good???? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1096472 United States 12/25/2012 12:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? I heard of this program over there which is attempting to make people shit in the toilets, if a town has them. Various sectors are employing groups of women to go and stand by someone who is shitting in the open and sing loudly and make lots of noise in the attempt to shame them. Quoting: Requiem It shouldn't be that hard to be honest, to actually build some sanitation. Just to mobilise a workforce which is already there just bring food to the area where the sewer construction is to take place... it seems that what is really lacking is the ability to plan and manage such an endeavour. I also heard someone say, recently, that in India one morning he looked into the street and saw a pig eating the shit coming out of some guys ass and it never even hit the ground. What kind of culture thinks that this is alright, and just goes about its business? wtF. Just fucking wrong. That's pretty funny. You can train a cat to shit in the toilet, but not an Indian. |
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Captain Spaulding User ID: 20103158 United States 12/25/2012 12:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Every time I visit Italy I'm amazed at the countless number of awesome fountains and how they're gravity fed and have been that way for over a thousand years. No pumps. No mechanics. Just clever planning and design by truly creative people. Quoting: Captain Spaulding 20103158 Love the place. The food. The women, Tuscany, castle towns, the Amalfi coast, VENICE(!) with no cars(!) in the early spring during and just after Mardi Gras. Florence with the Academia and the Uffizi with David and da Vinci. All the satanic symbolism in the Vatican and the catacombs. The women. More food. Duomo. Art everywhere. Moto Guzzi (by Lake Geneva in the Italian Alps), Ducati, Aprilla. Did I mention the women? and the women r they good???? Oh man, you just had to remind me... And the food! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29215367 United States 12/25/2012 12:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Picular to me! there hindu religon worships bugs, if you step on a bug you might be stepping on a passed away reincarnated relative! if rats want to invade your house you are suppose to let them. Not my religon!! |
Golu hbk User ID: 30831436 India 12/25/2012 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? haha retards, those who say so, are so poor that they have never left their country.. or you are of really low IQ because your daddy did not pay for your education. most people in india do not use permanent toilets because they cannot afford it, those who can have and use them. and do you know why we dont use toilet papers? because those who have permanent toilets have a jet washing system, it washes your ass off without touching it, its much cleaner than toilet paper. and that china smack website, ive seen such thing for the first time in my life, its like someone collected every such pic he could and put it there. but you know the worst thing here? people are piss and spit on roadsides, and now there are fines for this kind of stuff and as our economy develops such things would disappear. now you know the best thing here? we treat foreign tourists none less than Gods, you will find a saying 'atithi devo bhava' on every motor riskshaw, taxi, monuments, roads, where ever tourists come, which means 'guests are gods' we dont kill foreign students, or treat them like you do, nor we mass kill people at holy places like gurudwara. we continue to criticise ourself for self-imrpovement, unlike attacking other countries for greed. not any one can own guns here, because licensing is a very complicated process and unless you are in real danger, u wont get it. even if you get the licence, you will have to spend 'at least' 5 or 6 thousand US dollars for a decent manual handgun(unless you go the illigal way and buy a localy made 200$ gun). and population, in long, term is only a human-resuorce, but you wont get it. so get some money and get a college degree, will see you when you come back with a IQ of at least an ape. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30832112 India 12/25/2012 12:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Picular to me! there hindu religon worships bugs, if you step on a bug you might be stepping on a passed away reincarnated relative! if rats want to invade your house you are suppose to let them. Not my religon!! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29215367 religon?? or religion? this explains it... the people posting here live in dumpster trucks and have nada for education. ROFL |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30832112 India 12/25/2012 12:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? frankly it is sadder to see uneducated ruffians posting here from USA than those forced by circumstances outside there control to live a life of poverty. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6927178 Ireland 12/25/2012 12:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? and they had central heating.. Quoting: wildhoney they actually had advanced house heating system that heated the floor..and obviously the house ..etc.. they stored their wine wrong though imo...messed up the brain chemistry a bit later on.. Yeah, didn't they store their wine in lead or something similar? But hey, easy mistake to make, at least they didn't drink the water they shit in, like those punjabs. "At least they didn't drink the water they shit in" What a laugh!! Most western civilisation STILL DO drink the very water they shit in!!! I take it you've never been to a municipal sewerage treatment works OP? I have - worked there for a few weeks...tomato plants growing everywhere due to the seeds from people poop...hilarious! They have ultra-huge settling tanks and filtering systems....and at the time i was working there they were installing a better filter system to improve the 'tap water' that it would eventually become. What comes out of your tap - i can guarantee most europeans and americans - you once shat into - aswell as millions of others!!!! LMAO!!! IMO Its not even decent enough to bathe in...or shower...let alone drink. Thankfully i have a wild natural spring now. Also - i'm not sure how many copper mines are in India - plenty in the UK at the time. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30288790 Canada 12/25/2012 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? Romans did NOT have TIDE laundry soap. Instead they took their clothes to laundry people who cleaned their clothes for them. The reason for this was that the key component for clothes cleaning was...human piss. So, to obtain enough human piss to clean everyone's clothes, laundry places had huge bowls or urns outside their stores where passing person was encouraged to piss. Even today, Harris Tweed from Soctland uses sheep piss to lock in the colours, piss that is NOT washed out before you wear it. When you buy an expensive Harris Tweed jacket, yoo are actually wearing a coat with dried in sheep piss against your skin. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8410224 United States 12/25/2012 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk? It all comes down to superior European culture and knowledge. It's something that the ball-less Liberal media has tried to suppress and will call you a racist if you bring it up, but it's the truth. Quoting: Fighting Spartan This is the very reason that civilizations like Greece, Rome and the United States have all flourished, while backward ignorant society's like India (worshiping cows as gods) and Muslims still live and think in 7th century mentalities. It seems without fail, the issue with people here is often the lack of a secondary education, coupled the lack of any post high school reading. Perhaps even pre- high school reading, depending on locale, and cultural background. If anyone, who was so quick to comment regarding the 'development' of civilizations, had simply understood these differences from a historical, or anthropological background; with this I'm speaking of a basic post high course that explains these basic cultural differences, they wouldn't be using phrases such as "backwards society".. The reason civilizations developed as such, is more a difference in tradition, rather than a technological, or ideological one. Civilizations hadn't developed according to a universal principle, or a rudimentary rule of thumb. This is why you don't fine working plumbing in some older societies, and you will find it in others as far back as warfare had developed amungst other peoples. To understand something like cultural difference would be to understand the reason for all cultural developments, and that would eliminate the simple and crude question you pose here. Meanwhile, those who are keyboard ready with their childlike reasoning, and remedial understanding of cultural anthropology, will continue to embarrass themselves time and again. Please pick up a book, or continue your education, and this will eliminate a lot of your cultural biases, and prejudices. The very simple reason behind posing this ridiculous question is a lack of understanding on such a basic level. I'm not trying to offend anyone, or sound snooty or stuck up, and I am sorry if it came off that way. I just see a very real problem in not understanding why some societies developed certain ways of living at different points, or not at all, and why cultures are different across the world. I truly believe not understanding these differences leads to a real bias to other peoples, other cultures, and creates conflict. We should be respecting others for their differences, and not judging them harshly because they don't all 'live like Americans'. The world is a beautiful and diverse place. There is the liberal pinhead telling us to pick up a book instead of use our common sense and wisdom. |