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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by non_low_key on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @06:07AM (#41912807)
What do you mean by savage "native" here ? He is coming from a culture of long and rich intellectual history.
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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by uncharted9 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @06:11AM (#41912835)
I think he was referring to the way colonizers commonly referred to the subjects of their colonies pejoratively as "savage natives". This applies to Native Americans, Africans, South Asians, etc. Racism was the norm in the old days.
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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by mandmandam on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:36AM (#41924942)
It's the norm now as well.

Only the target has changed. The land grabs and slurs and dehumanization are essentially the same, if sometimes with a modern twist.

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