Mr 0

Wow, what blatant sinophobic racism, your bigotry knows no bounds. FYI my ancestry is UK based.

Your shoddy English is an indictment on the standards of your qualifications as the concept of context and even the definition of scholarly eludes you.

Given your disdain for anyone that gets their hands dirty, I infer that your life's work has no value other than your own self pleasure.

Come off it Mr O. We give BAs & MAs to foreign students who need an interpreter to talk to Oz born class mates, or academics.

Tell me, I have often wondered, how many Kelloggs Cornflakes packet tops do you have to send in these days to get a BA.

I'll take a grubby mechanic, engineers don't get grubby, any day in preference to an academic dill with his head stuffed up his nether regions.

MrOpinion,

Anthropology has a place in the world; have you read Ian Hogbin's "Island of Menstruating Men"?

Now, there was a groundbreaking book that has had a profound effect on life in general and medical science in particular, it far outweighs any contributions by engineers to society's wellbeing.

Is Mise,

Yes, I read it in the first year of my anthropology degree almost 40 years ago. I must be honest and tell you that I cannot remember a word of it now. I assume it would come back to me if I picked it up again.

I studied Anthropology under Peter Lawrence at Sydney Uni, took an Arts Degree and later Engineering, a much more useful degree, although I only did it out of interest, as a Mature Age student, and have never worked as a Certificated Engineer.
My engineering experience has been of the practical kind both as an Armourer and as a Machine Shop Foreman within the Dept. of Defence.

Is Mise,

At last, a kindred spirit.

I did my BA at Sydney and also had Peter Lawrence in the 1980s. Did you have Bill Newall, Peter Hinton, Daryl Feil, Vivian Kondos, Diane Austin, etc?

I took a BE in mechanical engineering prior to starting the BA. I still work for engineering firms.

I followed up with a couple of MAs and outside of work I do independent research on the environmental sociology of water. If I build up enough knowledge on the subject I might turn it into an MA thesis.

Hopefully we can have some interesting discussions together.