#wordlview

[jumalahmad]

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self

Syed Naquib Al-Attas

[jumalahmad]

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self known is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely

Syed Naquib Al-Attas

[protoslacker]

E. Richard Atleo (Umeek), academic, author and Hereditary Chief

Assembly of First Nations

We're all related, we are all related; we're all of common ancestry. As you may have noticed I have two kinds of names, one English, one Nuu-chah-nulth. I will attempt to speak from both perspectives in my presentation.

This video is about 9 minutes long. Umeek has much to say in the time. But I was struck with how he said it; how he spoke from "both" perspectives.

There's something going on in the presentation I can't quite put my finger on. There's a classic technique in conversation: "What I hear you saying is..." Dr. Atleo sometimes notes about what he says, "from a Nuu-chah-nulth perspective." but over all in his presentation he is speaking from both a Nuu-chah-nulth perspective and an English perspective. 

Yes, his presentation is "about" perspectives, what makes the presentation remarkable is how it is "from" both perspectives.