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Got the experience to, to put the message across, would be slightly difficult, ithink. it seems to me there are p words that may be relevant here — patronising, paternalistic. i mean, can you sit here with me and say that you truly understand the needs of, and know what is in the best interests of very different indigenous peoples throughout the world ? cos you've worked with groups in south america, you've worked with groups in asia, different parts of asia, you've worked with many, many different indigenous peoples. they're not monolithic at all. do you really know? yes, i can, because the...

Throughout the world ? cos you've worked with groups in south america, you've worked with groups in asia, different parts of asia, you've worked with many, many different indigenous peoples. they're not monolithic at all. do you really know? yes, i can, because they tell us what they want and we do what they say is... needs doing. they tell us about the abuses... do you speak their languages? i speak the common language that they will all speak, which is spanish and portuguese in south america, and malay in indonesia and southeast asia. and nearly always, somebody will speak one of those langu...

We've just got a new director, who's excellent, and is running things from london. but to artificially bring somebody in who probably english is not theirfirst language, and hasn't got the experience to, to put the message across, would be slightly difficult, ithink. it seems to me there are p words that may be relevant here — patronising, paternalistic. i mean, can you sit here with me and say that you truly understand the needs of, and know what is in the best interests of very different indigenous peoples throughout the world ? cos you've worked with groups in south america, you've worked...

Us what they want and we do what they say is... needs doing. they tell us about the abuses... do you speak their languages? i speak the common language that they will all speak, which is spanish and portuguese in south america, and malay in indonesia and southeast asia. and nearly always, somebody will speak one of those languages. i can't learn all the indigenous languages, obviously, but it is they who tell us what the problem is and we interpret it in that way. i mean, for instance, in india at the moment, there are appalling factory schools where indigenous children are taken from the trib...

To put the message across, would be slightly difficult, ithink. it seems to me there are p words that may be relevant here — patronising, paternalistic. i mean, can you sit here with me and say that you truly understand the needs of, and know what is in the best interests of very different indigenous peoples throughout the world ? cos you've worked with groups in south america, you've worked with groups in asia, different parts of asia, you've worked with many, many different indigenous peoples. they're not monolithic at all. do you really know? yes, i can, because they tell us what they wan...