Zulus

From Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard, 1995 edition, in the chapter entitled "Contagion of Aberration" (pg. 195):

"The Scientology religion is based exclusively upon L. Ron Hubbard's research, writings and recorded lectures —
all of which constitute the Scriptures of the religion"

Primitive societies, being subject to much mauling by the elements, have many more occasions for injury than civilized societies. Further, such primitive societies are alive with false data. Further, their practice of medicine and mental healing is on a very aberrative [glossary] level by itself. The number of engrams [glossary] in a Zulu (a member of a large, formerly warlike, Bantu people of southeastern Africa) would be astonishing. Moved out of his restimulative [glossary] area and taught English he would escape the penalty of much of his reactive [glossary] data; but in his native habitat the Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. It is a safe estimate, and one based on better experience than is generally available to those who base conclusions on "modern man" by studying primitive races, that primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness: all stem from their reactive patterns, not from their inherent personalities. Measuring one set of aberrees by another set of aberrees is not likely to lead to much data. And the contagion of aberration [glossary], being much greater in a primitive tribe, and the falsity of the superstitious data in the engrams of such a tribe both lead to a conclusion which, observed on the scene, is carried out by actuality.

           

Subject:
 Hubbard's prejudice against Zulus
From:
 Kim Baker <KBAKER@uctlib.uct.ac.za>
Newsgroups:
 alt.religion.scientology
Date:
 Tue, 28 May 1996 18:05:19 GMT
Message-ID:
 <m0uOT3b-0005YQC @uctmail2.uct.ac.za [offsite]>

… South African citizens from the Zulu nation find this highly offensive, patronising and out-right racist. The rich body of ancestral traditions, ceremonies and culture of the Zulu people are admired the world over. The picture that Hubbard has painted of the Zulu nation reveals an alarming ignorance and ability [sic] to comprehend a cultural tradition that is not his own. If his ability to understand the Zulu nation was that erroneous, how then his ability to observe and dictate a "philosophy of mind"?

Kim Baker