Talk:Barbarian
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I wonder about the NPOVness of this article. Was it written by someone qualified in anthropology? Michael Hardy 22:49 Mar 17, 2003 (UTC)
It's not so much a question here of anthropology as of history and etymology - the article accurately reflects the development of the term and its historical usage. Maybe it needs to include something on the revival of the "barbarian" in Twentieth-Century heroic fantasy for the sake of completeness though. What are you having NPOV problems with? Rüdiger
im sorry but saying that it is 'non perjorative' to call a buncch of people 'parasites of civilization' is patently stupid. who wrote this garbage? pretending that it is npov is even stupider.
civilization is often a parasite of the 'barbaians', if you consider history, for example the african slave trade, or the way raw materials are often extracted from poor countries by the wealthy by force
- A more careful reader of the entry will see that the contrast is between "barbarian" and "nomad," and that the term "parasite" is being used in its narrowest, most specific sense, not as a pejorative tarbrush. General critiques of civilization might be more useful in entries like Power politics. --Wetman 17:06, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
