{"id":14,"date":"2007-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-14T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T01:21:52","slug":"we-and-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/2007\/07\/14\/we-and-they\/","title":{"rendered":"We and They"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many years ago (okay, probably 10), while we were just dating, Bart shared this poem with me.  I was getting ready to leave for a summer in Bangladesh and I was about to encounter a whole different way of life. <\/p>\n

As you read this poem, think about how you<\/u> view "They." <\/p>\n

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We and They<\/em><\/strong> by Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n

Father and Mother, and Me,
\nSister and Auntie say
\nAll the people like us are We,
\nAnd every one else is They.
\nAnd They live over the sea,
\nWhile We live over the way,
\nBut-would you believe it? –They look upon We
\nAs only a sort of They! <\/span><\/p>\n

\nWe eat pork and beef
\nWith cow-horn-handled knives.
\nThey who gobble Their rice off a leaf,
\nAre horrified out of Their lives;
\nWhile they who live up a tree,
\nAnd feast on grubs and clay,
\n(Isn’t it scandalous? ) look upon We
\nAs a simply disgusting They! <\/p>\n

We shoot birds with a gun.
\nThey stick lions with spears.
\nTheir full-dress is un-.
\nWe dress up to Our ears.
\nThey like Their friends for tea.
\nWe like Our friends to stay;
\nAnd, after all that, They look upon We
\nAs an utterly ignorant They! <\/p>\n

We eat kitcheny food.
\nWe have doors that latch.
\nThey drink milk or blood,
\nUnder an open thatch.
\nWe have Doctors to fee.
\nThey have Wizards to pay.
\nAnd (impudent heathen!) They look upon We
\nAs a quite impossible They! <\/p>\n

All good people agree,
\nAnd all good people say,
\nAll nice people, like Us, are We
\nAnd every one else is They:
\nBut <\/strong><\/span><\/span>if you cross over the sea,
\nInstead of over the way,
\nYou may end by (think of it!) looking on We
\nAs only a sort of They! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An insightful poem on Ethnocentrism by Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}