It occurs to me that many Asian cultures give people’s family names first, then the individual name, so “Jinbo Chen” is actually “Chen Jinbo”. In Klingon, that’s {chen jinbo’}, suggesting that one does not need to cause a bias to take form. It simply takes form. It’s not anybody’s fault. Training machine intelligence with unconsciously biased data results in biased decisions made by the software. The caste system in India and in the US has been entrenched for centuries, such that the bias is not merely difficult to thwart. It is difficult to detect, unless, of course, you are a member of the lower caste and are forced to deal with it every day, so it is much easier for you to detect, when you seek a home loan or a job or educational assistance, and none of that addresses your starting position in life, which is set back because your parents and their ancestors couldn’t get a home loan or a job or educational assistance, etc.. As you walk around your neighborhood and don’t notice any lower-caste people living near you, and you go to work and there aren’t many, if any, people of lower caste in your workplace, and if you drive by road construction and notice a disproportionate number of people of lower caste doing the hot, unpleasant labor, you could notice the bias, but since this has been normal for your entire life, it’s really easy to not see. And, since you’ve likely been isolated from lower caste people, it becomes easy for you to accept stereotypes about their untrustworthiness, criminal behavior, and moral decay that makes it okay for them to be under your caste, since they deserve it, right? That’s certainly how Nazi Germany saw it. Suggested reading: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. pItlh charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Apr 4, 2023, at 10:44 AM, Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 04, 2023
Klingon word: vutmeH 'un Part of speech: noun Definition: flat-bottomed pot for food preparation (regional) Source: KGT _______________________________________________
(KGT 27): For example, while a large, flat-bottomed pot usually called a {bargh}, in some regions it is a {vutmeH 'un} ("pot for preparing [food]"), sometimes shortened to simply {vut'un}.
SEE: vut cook, prepare food (v) 'un pot (for food preparation) (n)
SEE ALSO: nevDagh type of pot with handles (n) chor bargh ceramic flat-bottomed pot (regional) (n) mIv bargh metal flat-bottomed pot (regional) (n)
-- Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons Please contribute relevant vocabulary from recent qep’a’mey or qepHommey. I’ve fallen woefully behind in updating my files.
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