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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10206728, member: 2844&quot;]It wasn&#039;t seeing skulls as such that was a problem for me, it was seeing these particular skulls.</p><p>It is the fact that we in the West think it is OK to desacrate burial sites in poor countries for our own entertainment.</p><p>Many of us have no idea what this does to a culture, nor do many Westerners even care. We loot(ed) sacred sites in poor countries (or paid looters to do so) just because we can. And we don&#039;t care what intentions for an afterlife these people had. We also don&#039;t care about the feelings of the descendants of these people.</p><p><br /></p><p>In some cases contemporary people were murdered to satisfy the demand for skulls. Much like Burke and Hare in Edinburgh, who targeted mainly Highlanders and Irish, also considered inferior races in their time.</p><p>Even worse, in Namibia the craving for skulls by German &#039;researchers&#039; and dubious collectors even led to genocide among the Herero and Nama people in the early 20th century. After all, they were &#039;just primitive people&#039;, so that&#039;s OK. The survivors were forced to boil the heads of the victims and scrape the flesh off, so clean skulls could be shipped to Germany and from there to other countries in the &#039;civilised world&#039;.</p><p>There is a direct link between the Namibia genocide and the genocide during WWII.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you ever get the chance to see the German movie &quot;Der vermessene Mensch&quot;, please do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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