Listening to ghosts: an alternative (non)argument

I enjoyed this piece and the way it was written. Malea Powell challenges modern discourse and various other educational practices. I particularly like when she has to say about our theories of civilization and that in Western culture, we are taught that folks are either "savage" or "civilized." I this is still very relevant today in the way media depicts the other countries of this world. Canada is a vast forest with country neighbors... South America and Africa are poor and disease ridden with an excess of crime. Muslim nations are filled with extremists and infidels. There are so many false ways we describe the world around us. We dehumanize the people that live in these places, and our society is flawless. Her tattoo truely relates to some of my beliefs. Especially that of the spiral.

For Indian people to have reinvented themseleves through English is an insightful theory. That the languages we speak give us a means of defining ourselves. And she follows with the idea that the native peoples are given a chance to reinvent themselves further by following up on their roots, by learning the ancient languages. I am impressed with the way she begins her discourse, with the image of clearning the wax from the ears and realizing that "Hey, you are speaking now". Even further, that she decides to finish with an invitation. An invocation. Listen to the whispers of ghosts. There is so much to learn from the history.