Tuesday, February 08, 2005

We even teach them football now

Oh, what the world has come to. Back in the day, reports a University of Florida researcher -- a researcher who happens to work for my mom, who happens to own her own archaeology firm, for God's sake -- the Spanish kept girls in their proper place:

“The main goal of childhood was to get children ready for their adult lives,” said Jamie Waters, who did the research for her thesis in anthropology at UF. “Parents and other adult family members were trying to socialize children in the skills they would need as adults, which for boys included reading and writing, and for girls was domestic crafts, such as pottery making, sewing, cooking and taking care of younger siblings.”


Maybe that's why the Spaniards conquered the New World, but we can't even manage two countries, huh? Huh?



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