XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>Oh, yeah, yeah, Mayan Calendar, very complex, big deal. Maybe they   
   >>>invented a ritual way of trimming their toenails that takes twelve   
   >>>hours, also. They still ate people.   
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   >   
   >   
   > As did nearly all peoples if you go back far enough...so what?   
   >   
   > The simple reality is this did not and does not define a people.   
      
      
   It defines them pretty well. Any culture that practices ritual   
   cannibalism, particularly a well-established culture, it rotten to   
   the core. That's what the European explorers saw when they came to   
   the New World. Brutality, cannibalism, tribal warfare, ritualized   
   murder. It's been whitewashed in the centuries that have passed to   
   try to make the natives of the Americas into some sort of noble   
   nature boys. Bullshit I say. They would have raped the New World   
   down to the bare bedrock if they had possessed the technology to   
   do so.   
      
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