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FirstLight

(15,545 posts)
5. That's really interesting...but also not surprising...
Wed Jun 18, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jun 18

Anthropology is such a fascinating subject! I am sad I had to drop out of ASU, but I couldn't justify the time spent vs the inability to find work later down the line...at 55, my time is limited to waste...

It also bugged me that ASU had some really OFF professors in the field, they had their own agendas for their topics. The last teo classes i took i dropped before midterm because they were SO far from the material in the course description... The death & Dying across cultural perspectives class ended up being focused on american funerals and we spent the first 3 weeks planning our own funeral, writing an obit etc... STUPID! The class on Native American religion/veliefs was primarily focused on ONE tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon that this professor had lived with and there was no real references to other tribes etc...it got old real quick. That, and the fact they required 2 YEARS of a foreign language to graduate was just a money grab IMO. I was also very dissapointed when the University did nothing about the Trump Admin's attacks on Student Loans, etc...

Sorry, didn't mean to go off topic!

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HA! FirstLight Jun 18 #1
LOL DENVERPOPS Jun 18 #4
That's really interesting...but also not surprising... FirstLight Jun 18 #5
Don't apologize DENVERPOPS Jun 18 #11
Not an expert, but my sense is that most paid-for education is a money-making racket. erronis Jun 18 #13
Some of them are. H2O Man Jun 18 #20
Going in debt for a degree you cant use to make a livelihood just does not make any sense to me....nt mitch96 Jun 18 #23
Valid point. H2O Man Jun 18 #24
I know two degreed people who have transitioned to working in the trades.. Electrician and plumber... mitch96 Jun 19 #25
I of course was raised with the idea of "all out of Africa" slightlv Jun 18 #16
Uh oh. But the Bible... ananda Jun 18 #2
Very very soon, I am sure Ananda DENVERPOPS Jun 18 #12
But what about the land bridge for Asia and those humans made their way south along the Pacific and ... Botany Jun 18 #3
The peoples of polynesia were great travelers. Whether by accident or purposeful exploration. erronis Jun 18 #7
Many Native American tribes have stories about their ancestors coming by boats across the Pacific. Botany Jun 18 #8
It supports the theory that the first arrivals came by boat, sailing along the coast William Seger Jun 18 #14
I've gotta go see those. Clouds Passing Jun 18 #6
LOL, that looks exactly like my footprint. catbyte Jun 18 #9
Western PA. twodogsbarking Jun 18 #10
Interesting. One of my marriages was in that neck of the woods. (Fordyce) erronis Jun 18 #19
There was an equally ancient population in eastern Brazil Warpy Jun 18 #15
Sure puts a new point on "Open Borders" doesn't it?! slightlv Jun 18 #17
Those Prints are in White Sands NP -- Free Entrance Tomorrow for Juneteenth LeftyLucie Jun 18 #18
Damn it. Now that is buzzing round my otherwise empty cranium.... erronis Jun 18 #21
Stephen Hawking sings galaxy song cbabe Jun 19 #26
Fascinating. nt Exp Jun 18 #22
That footprint proves that the first REAL Amercan was an Aryan who lost his jack boots and MAGA hat. Ping Tung Jun 19 #27
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