Stephen Corry
Stephen Corry
Stephen Corryis a British anthropologist and indigenous rights activist, better known as the Director of the non-governmental organisation Survival International. He was asked to lead the organisation in 1984, where he took it from a situation of near bankruptcy to becoming one of the world's leading organisations in its field. He was also the chairman of the Free Tibet Campaign for many years, since 1993, and remains on its board...
colonial conveys demeaning european far gypsies language people somehow talking throwback
Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.