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Date Posted: Wed, 09/24/03 9:09am
Author: Ylva
Subject: Re: Speaking of weather - "Indian summer"...?
In reply to: john mohdom 's message, "Re: Speaking of weather - "Indian summer"...?" on Sun, 09/21/03 9:41pm

>>How come this time of the year is called by that name?
>
>(I think) because it's the end of summer and Indians
>being generally more tied with the land made it a busy
>and positive time of the year harvesting and laying in
>the provisions for winter.
>

Some people in Europe look at the colors of the leaves and call this "Indian summer". From what I've heard/read (don't remember which) they refer to colorful Indian face paintings. Ofcourse this doesn't have to be correct. I guess when people can't ask someone apropriate for an answer, they try to find logical explanations by themselves, unless they just drop the question. Hm, if this includes cultural elements alien to themselves, they probably do come up with quite funny potpourries, eh?

>>What do Indians think about it?
>
>I've never heard one object to it. The vast majority
>of the connotations to the term are either neutral or
>positive.

Here it's defenitely nothing negative, positive only I'd say, connected with beauty: warmth and colors. Just thought I'd ask as I counted on it might have something to do with positive stereotyping (any kind of stereotyping is negative though it may be called postive, right?). Last weekend we had +26°C/79°F, wore t-shirts and shorts and walked barefoot. Even my dear southener wasn't cold :o)

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