We experienced similar problems. We came to other people's land. Americans came to the lands belonging to Indians and Aleuts. We came to those of Eurasian Northern peoples: Chukchis and Eskimos. We exercised the right of strength. No one invited us there. We imposed our culture on the aboriginal tribes, gave them our names and technologies. And what is the result of all this — for them and for us?
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
The round table discussion was mediated by Alexander NIKONOV
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Today we have decided to launch a kind of a virtual round table discussion of the problem. It is virtual because participants live in various cities on different continents. It is clearly impossible to find a solution for this most burning problem of the XX century, but one can at least outline the situation somewhat clearer.
Ethnic origin — Udug, education — medical immunologist. On behalf of Polar Medicine Department in the Arctic and Antarctic Institute of St. Petersburg researched the ecological situation in areas populated by small ethnic groups.
Professor of African Studies, ex-head of the Civilization Problems Laboratory, PhD for research of problems experienced by small ethnic groups in the North.
Formerly — assistant to chairperson of Russia's State Committee of the North, currently assistant Duma Deputy from Chukchi Autonomous Okrug.
Requires no introductions, invented the term «progressorship».
Eskimo writer, resides in Alaska, fourth-generation descendant of the Hawaii king who had fled the local ethnic brawl instigated by the white colonisers.
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