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...century, heathens were executed for refusing baptism. Beginning in the 11th century, Crusaders trying to drive Arabs out of the Holy Land committed countless atrocities. Shortly after Columbus made his first trip, the Spanish Inquisition began taking action against Jews and, later, Muslims. In 1637 the Pequot Indian tribe was murdered by Massachusetts militiamen who called themselves ''faithful followers of Jesus Christ.'' After the Spanish-American War, American soldiers chased down Filipino rebels and burned their villages because the U.S. claimed the right to Christianize them. Today Christian Serbs are slaughtering Bosnian Muslims, and antiabortion fanatics wave their Bibles...
...mention the God of their fathers, who blesses the seeding of new continents. The dangers of cultural crossings are unavoidable, as Malouf's title suggests. Fairley, a white man with Aboriginal ways, represents a primitive immigrant's worst confusion: the man in the right skin but the wrong tribe. Like the Wild Boy of Borneo, he is a reminder of instincts caged but not tamed by civilization. That such a creature has much to teach can be even more upsetting. So it is not the natives who are restless. Fairley, the harmless handyman of the good-hearted family that shelters...
...Zimbabwe's Torment Readers may wonder how it is that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has dragged his country into economic collapse and abject poverty, yet millions of Zimbabweans still support him [June 30]. This is because in Africa, tribal feeling remains powerful. The chief of your tribe can do no wrong, and African culture demands that he be supported at all costs. Western nations are justifiably horrified by what is happening in Zimbabwe, but they should bear in mind that the Mugabe regime came to power with their support. Watch South Africa: Its economy and social framework are rapidly following...
...more open-minded place than even the United States. And the tolerance isn't just a liberal, urban phenomenon. Kathoey beauty pageants are popular in Thai villages; the Kampang school is located in one of Thailand's poorest and most rural regions. As one Thai hill-tribe creation myth goes, in the beginning, there were three sexes: female, male and an intertwining of the two - just like the image on the Kampang bathroom door...
...natural humorous tendency to denounce folly and iniquity in all directions. This is what he was doing in Following the Equator when he wrote, "All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, however insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty, occupies a foot of land that was not stolen. When the English, the French, and the Spaniards reached America, the Indian tribes had been raiding each other's territorial clothes-lines for ages, and every acre of ground in the continent had been...