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North of London | I will assume lots on here get JD's Furrow magazine.
Browsing through mine this morn and on pg 7 an article about coloured corn struck me how our biases shape our lives.
Towards the bottom of the story it notes "Blue corn, for example, has been a part of diets in North America dating back to the Spanish explorer Coronado. In 1540, he discovered that Blue corn was a staple............"
I think that it should have been written that Blue corn has been used in diets in North America (and probably South america too) for thousands of years.
Coranado did not discover anything but may have made the info that North America used blue corn for food available to Europeans.
Any credit for discovery should remain with people living in the Americas thousands of years ago.
It reads like European biased writing to me or at least a poor choice of words.
Just me? or do others see what I saw in it? | |
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The Furrow
