Re: harsh conditions => communitarian culture ?


Omixochitl wrote:
> "Barry Cotter" <Barry.P.Cotter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:1123243321.221123.296760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > sigvald@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Barry Cotter wrote:
[snip]
> > If they fail to adapt to their environment to such an extent that they
> > can all be taken away by slaving vessels, or are so small a population
> > that they can be assimilated by the Greenland Inuit without at least
> > gross morphological changes, never mind linguistic or cultural
> > funkiness, I consider that simple "failed to adapt". Even if they did
>
> Wait a minute, doesn't assimilating to a mainstream sometimes take a lot of
> adaptive skills?

Absolutely. Witness the sterling examples of assimilation/adaptation
that are the First Nations of Canada, the Australian Aboriginies or the
natives of the Argentinian pampas. Obviously, if there just aren't
enough settlers to crowd you out, you'll likely do better, like the
South American natives, but you still don't end up on top of the heap.

I amn't sure if by mainstream you mean culture, in which case there's
no evidence the Greenland Norse did with the Inuit, or likewise with
environment. If the last, their way of life was marginal, but
sustainable in the Interglacial warming period, but not after, and they
couldn't adapt to the new (hellish to them) environmental conditions.

.

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