Who is Backward and Primitive?

 Sally Field, the great actress who plays Betty Mahmoody (nee Lover) in a scene of movie Not Without My Daughter in the 90's calls Iranian society of post 1979 Revolution, backward and primitive, which it was and to some extent still is. Iran and generally most of the counties in the region, and I can list many, are male dominant societies. A very recent example of this concept for the world is the way Taliban treats women but the fact is other countries are not much better than Afghanistan, including Iran. People, generally, and women specifically are deprived of their basic rights and that is not only that. People are deeply tied with centuries-old religious and non-religious beliefs. Iran, as I said, is just not as just restricted and because they have natural resources, they're well-off or perhaps I shall say were well-off! Now with the sanctions, the whole country is screwed-up! The country is  not much better than the Taliban-ran Afghanistan!! Same in other nearby states: Look at what has been happening to women in India, with rape and humiliation. That is another country which the news gets out with not much difficulty.

Now we're going back to North America, where people are modern and civilized! Yet the so-called indigenous people, a very small minority, have lots of power, simply because they are in inhabitants of this continents for centuries! 

There's this guy named Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse who claimed to Medicine Man and had sexual relationship with or without consent with under-age and legally-aged if I could say women in Canada and the US because he apparently talked them into healing their spirit and fix their mental issues. And this people are not backward and primitive?! An indigenous boy was in a hospital because he had been diagnosed with a serious sickness and Chasing Horse, as a Medicine Man, claimed he could heal him based on the permission he got from his father! It was believed that the man has healing power which is better than today's science and technology! This is certainly is not being stupid, backward and primitive! Is it?

It was a few weeks ago, I think, that a so-called chief, or someone prominent(!) from a tribe, an aboriginal tribe was travelling by air with a big feather head covering! The crew asked her or him (in today's modern, non-primitive, civilized West, it doesn't matter! Everyone is equally worthless!) to remove to later-found-to-be(!) sacred head-covering and she or he refused and started an argument with the poor air crew! Imagine how selfish, self-centered, and primitive one could be to get into an argument with anyone, let alone with the air crew, over a piece of thing(!) covered in either natural or human-made feather which only has symbolic value! Does that feed a hungry man on the street? Does it give advice to a young who is clueless? It's absolutely worthless! 

What happened then? Air Canada had to apologize to that person! Who is freaking primitive and backward in addition to being selfish now?! Get your hat and shut the hell up! 

It was said nicely once: A small minority has been given too much (unnecessary) power, and this is just not about the aboriginal people of Canada, it's about everyone who tries to show others that they are better and shinier than others and we have plenty of these creatures in Canada!

(Photo: Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, an American aboriginal actor, I believe, first was seen in Dances With Wolves in the 90's and had a tremendous performance there, seen here in the scene that the natives save Lieutenant John Dunbar from the soldiers)