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Let The Ancestors Speak
Why? It is the only way for one to be humble. And to do so, to let the ancestors speak, one will have to use what scientist call attested data. This is why:
Whenever one describes a people, it is important that he/she does so according to a people themselves, that is, the way such a people describe themselves. This manner is called “being humble”. The opposite is an attemo “to belittle a people”. It is to think that one is better than anybody, or simply “not humble”. There is another way to belittle a people, a more effective way, a way that leads to an ultimate extinction/extermination of a people: using unattested data/evidence to describe a people or entirely avoiding attested data to describe a people. For example, personally, I would not attempt to describe, for example, Europeans and Arabs, unless I actually ensemble a team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, linguists, historians and similar to go and excavate the whole of Europe and Arabia for ancient and classical dead people, perform tests on them, to ascertain what they said about themselves. Anything else will be me trying to be “not humble”. And that is not nice. That is NOT nice!
Now, I don’t know what it is called when a people themselves avoid their own attested data, left behind by their ancestors, in an attempt to describe themselves. Perhaps it should be called “a miracle”.
