[Leica] Agricultural Program, Helmand, Afghanistan

[thurmanphoto at gmail.com (Wendy Thurman)]

I have no comment on the below and I dismiss its relevance to the question
at hand.  I ask again, do we dismiss the susceptibility of an uneducated
mind to outside influence?

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the question that confronts us.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:07 PM, slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov at 
charter.net>wrote:

> Wendy, don't take it like that! I was just making an observation on a bias
> based on cultural relativism.
> Besides, I'm quite familiar with this form of inter state and scientific
> activism.
> My late father was an agricultural engineer, and a research bio-chemist.
> He recounted a story once, of when we lived in France. He was once
> approached by the first president of Mali and members of his cabinet. He 
> was
> asked to come to Mali and do a project similar to what the Israelis were
> doing.
> Unfortunately, he couldn't account for our safety once we were in country.
> That's just one story.
> Though the most horrific ones were the stories of fellow agronomists who
> would die mysteriously on location from the oddest accidents.
> S.d.
>
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Wendy Thurman wrote:
>
> > I'll sit on the sidelines on this one; it would seem that the prospect of
> an
> > uneducated mind's susceptibility to extremist views is a questionable
> one.
> >
> > Did I miss something here?  Maybe it's best I don't participate any
> longer
> > in this forum.  I know the forum is dedicated to photography but the fact
> > that I am taking pictures in Afghanistan has apparently caused some
> > problems.
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:06 PM, slobodan Dimitrov <
> s.dimitrov at charter.net>wrote:
> >
> >> The way it's stated below, leads one to think that illiteracy leads to
> >> extremism.
> >> A high rate of literacy is just as potent a vehicle for reaction.
> >> S.d.
> >>
> >> On Feb 7, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Wendy Thurman wrote:
> >>
> >>> ....effort is further challenged by the facts that we are dealing with
> a
> >> functionally
> >>> illiterate population heavily influenced by the Taliban.
> >>
> >>
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