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by armadsen 1058 days ago
Unless “bushmen” is being used in some generic “people who live out in the bush” sense? That stuck out to me too.

(I’m very closely connected to one of the foremost Western experts on the Himba and have spent time with them myself. Definitely not the same as the Bushmen.)
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alienthrowaway 1058 days ago
> I’m very closely connected to one of the foremost Western experts on the Himba and have spent time with them myself

This is such a strange sentence that makes it sound like they're some exotic, uncontacted people. Give it a couple of hours until its waking hours in Namibia, and we're going to have Himba people in this thread.

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armadsen 1057 days ago
I’m not really sure what you mean. There are Himba people on the internet, of course. But there just aren’t that many of them in the world period, and there aren’t exactly a ton of non-Namibians who know any.

And I thought it was implied, but I was talking about Himba people who live traditionally, which sort falls under the “out in the bush” heading. Not too many of them hanging out on HN.

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