{"id":4313,"date":"2009-02-12T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2009-02-12T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T06:14:00","slug":"indians-and-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/indians-and-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians and Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Times of India<\/i> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Police in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The Indians of the Kulina tribe near the Peruvian border are accused of having killed and eaten the insides of Ocelio Alves de Carvalho, a 21 year-old student in the town of Envira in Amazonas state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What surprises me about this news is not the cannibalism or suchlike, but that The Times of India<\/i> is carrying this news in its ‘Indians Abroad’<\/a> section. Yes, there is a really a website editor there who does not understand that native Brazilian Indians are not from India<\/i>. (In Portugese, native Indians are called Indios<\/i> and people from India are called Indianos<\/i>, but the English language using the same word for these two is no excuse for such confusion.) <\/p>\n In my view, there is only one apt punishment for the editor who made this error: he should be eaten.<\/p>\n (HT: Nikhil Apte.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Times of India<\/i> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Police in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The Indians of the Kulina tribe near the Peruvian border are accused of having killed and eaten the insides of Ocelio Alves de Carvalho, a 21 year-old student in the town of Envira in Amazonas state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What surprises me about this news is not the cannibalism or suchlike, but that The Times of India<\/i> is carrying this news in its ‘Indians Abroad’<\/a> section. Yes, there is a really a website editor there who does not understand that native Brazilian Indians are not from India<\/i>. (In Portugese, native Indians are called Indios<\/i> and people from India are called Indianos<\/i>, but the English language using the same word for these two is no excuse for such confusion.) <\/p>\n In my view, there is only one apt punishment for the editor who made this error: he should be eaten.<\/p>\n (HT: Nikhil Apte.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,14,15,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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