{"id":391,"date":"2010-12-17T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5:8080\/?p=391"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:05:58","slug":"be-an-indian-giver-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/2010\/12\/17\/be-an-indian-giver-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Be an Indian Giver this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be an Indian Giver this season. The text below is from an inspirational speech I recently gave at Toastmasters. It was intended to be only 2 minutes long, however I went over just by a bit. I think it&#8217;s important to share this with you, feel free to pass it on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindhacker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/il_430xN.63862925.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-393 size-full\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border: 5px solid black;\" title=\"Indian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/f712bec9-il_430xn.63862925.jpg\" alt=\"Be an Indian Giver\" width=\"430\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/f712bec9-il_430xn.63862925.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/f712bec9-il_430xn.63862925-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>I went to see a great speaker this week.\u00a0 His name was Shy Kurtz. I won&#8217;t get into the premise of his speech, but some of the background he gave reminded me of a very important concept, which we often forget in today&#8217;s busy, consumer world.<\/p>\n<p>He started talking about the term &#8216;Indian Giver&#8217;, where it came from, and why in fact when it was intended as a insult, it rather should have been a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>The term came from a misunderstanding, through a difference of cultures.\u00a0 In the Native American culture, a gift has a life of it&#8217;s own.\u00a0 When you give a gift, you are creating something that will live on forever.\u00a0 Why? Because it is expected that when one receives a gift, that it is not kept &#8211; the gift must be passed on. Not necessarily the same physical object, it&#8217;s more metaphysical than that &#8211; the gift itself must be passed on, and that is how it stays alive!\u00a0 Imagine, every time you start a gift chain, it could be passed all around the world, through thousands of people, only to come back to you!<\/p>\n<p>The term Indian Giver appears to have come about when the Native Americans realized that their new neighbors did not subscribe to that way of thinking<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/blog\">.<\/a>\u00a0 It seems that some took offense to that, and took their gifts back, not wanting them to die.<\/p>\n<p>And that is where the term Indian giver came from.\u00a0 A clash of cultures.<\/p>\n<p>This holiday season, let\u2019s all keep the gifts alive, and bring a little more light into the world!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be an Indian Giver this season. The text below is from an inspirational speech I recently gave at Toastmasters. 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