We three things of Dreamwidth meme are...
Jun. 11th, 2019 06:09 pmThere's a "three things" meme going around these days, where you ask someone for three things you might or might not know much about, and then write about them in your blog. I got these from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zhelana.
Pikachu: Pokémon didn't enter the scene until I was solidly adult and had some young niblings. A few of them got sort of into them, but not so much. I'm active in science fiction fandom, and there are enough Pikachu references there (also costuming and cosplay) that I get the overall idea. I wasn't sure why Pikachu was so popular, but it turns out he was the original Pokémon that appeared in the first episode, and just about every one after that.
the Cherokee: The white folks' version of their history paints a picture of "Indians" who were quick to adopt the mannerisms and customs of the Europeans they came into contact with and become "civilized". Sequoyah, who formaized Cherokee orthography, is prominent. The Trail of Tears gets mentioned, but there's not much mentioned about why they chose to relocate.
This is nothing like the Cherokee version, and I know there is a big difference. My limited understanding of the summary of that version is of a community that believed that by acculturating and acceding to demands of the people invading their land, they would somehow be able to retain that land and many of their customs -- and were repeatedly and violently betrayed in that end. Many of them were eventually relocated to a land that was nothing like what they had left, and in which they felt out of place and disconnected from the land. Those scars stay with them today. There isn't much to "appreciate" there the way the white folks' version would have it. (Disclaimer: I'm "white folks". I acknowledge what "my people" did to their people. I don't much like it.)
hippopotomuses: I saw this word went elsewhere as well, and the Latin meaning got covered there. My description is "the deadliest wild animal in its range". This comes about because crocodiles, which are common in hippo habitat, eat baby hippos. So adult hippos will sit on and drown any crocodile they can spot and catch. Meanwhile, because water transportation is pretty much the only practical way to get around in hippo country, dugout canoes have long been a popular way to get around. But, to a hippo, those look a lot like crocodiles, and get the same treatment. Which leads to lots of folks getting tossed out of those canoes and drowned or mangled by a hippo.
Would you like three words of your own? Please let me know in a comment, and I'll give you a set. And probably ask for another one myself, if you don't mind.
zhelana.Pikachu: Pokémon didn't enter the scene until I was solidly adult and had some young niblings. A few of them got sort of into them, but not so much. I'm active in science fiction fandom, and there are enough Pikachu references there (also costuming and cosplay) that I get the overall idea. I wasn't sure why Pikachu was so popular, but it turns out he was the original Pokémon that appeared in the first episode, and just about every one after that.
the Cherokee: The white folks' version of their history paints a picture of "Indians" who were quick to adopt the mannerisms and customs of the Europeans they came into contact with and become "civilized". Sequoyah, who formaized Cherokee orthography, is prominent. The Trail of Tears gets mentioned, but there's not much mentioned about why they chose to relocate.
This is nothing like the Cherokee version, and I know there is a big difference. My limited understanding of the summary of that version is of a community that believed that by acculturating and acceding to demands of the people invading their land, they would somehow be able to retain that land and many of their customs -- and were repeatedly and violently betrayed in that end. Many of them were eventually relocated to a land that was nothing like what they had left, and in which they felt out of place and disconnected from the land. Those scars stay with them today. There isn't much to "appreciate" there the way the white folks' version would have it. (Disclaimer: I'm "white folks". I acknowledge what "my people" did to their people. I don't much like it.)
hippopotomuses: I saw this word went elsewhere as well, and the Latin meaning got covered there. My description is "the deadliest wild animal in its range". This comes about because crocodiles, which are common in hippo habitat, eat baby hippos. So adult hippos will sit on and drown any crocodile they can spot and catch. Meanwhile, because water transportation is pretty much the only practical way to get around in hippo country, dugout canoes have long been a popular way to get around. But, to a hippo, those look a lot like crocodiles, and get the same treatment. Which leads to lots of folks getting tossed out of those canoes and drowned or mangled by a hippo.
