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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6231761" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>Don't think this would work out very well ...</p><p></p><p>Just about everywhere, you would be immediately noticed as a foreigner. If you are lucky, you will find a nearby community of similar folks. Lots of segregation by ethnicity. If you are very lucky and your ethnicity is of the current ruling class, you might win big.</p><p></p><p>A lot of folks will present themselves with a lot more deportment and good looks than might be common. Nowadays, there are a lot fewer folks with pox marks and the like. You might get snatched up to a brothel or taken as a concubine, or worse, immediately set upon (I'll spare folks details of what would ensue ...)</p><p></p><p>Knowing how to read and write could be a big plus ... if your language matched the society where you landed. In a lot of places you could probably teach letters. Although, your lack of knowledge of social customs would hold you back. Your knowledge of hygiene and nutrition would help to keep you safe, as long as you were in a position to put the knowledge in use: If you are in prison, you would probably have to make do with what you are given.</p><p></p><p>In a lot of places, folks would immediately dismiss you as an out-of-place foreigner, and jail you or push you into a foreigner's enclave. Lack of papers would likely be a big problem, and would get you jailed. From there, seems that you would have to get lucky or be incarcerated indefinitely, and consigned to labor for the rest of your miserable existence. In a lot of other places, your failure to respect your social betters would get you in trouble. Simply looking at folks directly is going to get you roughed up. Failure to answer questions with a proper honorifics will just turn a bad situation worse.</p><p></p><p>You might be in rather big trouble as a disease vector. You might be a carrier of a lot of diseases which don't exist yet. And, at the same time, you would probably be susceptible to a lot of what is carried in the food and water, to which you have no tolerance.</p><p></p><p>Folks with advanced knowledge might have an edge -- if they can get an audience. Problem here is that without credentials most won't give you any time, and even those of the day who presented what turned out to be true ideas had a long time to get their ideas accepted. (As a kind of example, consider Ramanujan in England.)</p><p></p><p>Thx!</p><p></p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6231761, member: 13107"] Don't think this would work out very well ... Just about everywhere, you would be immediately noticed as a foreigner. If you are lucky, you will find a nearby community of similar folks. Lots of segregation by ethnicity. If you are very lucky and your ethnicity is of the current ruling class, you might win big. A lot of folks will present themselves with a lot more deportment and good looks than might be common. Nowadays, there are a lot fewer folks with pox marks and the like. You might get snatched up to a brothel or taken as a concubine, or worse, immediately set upon (I'll spare folks details of what would ensue ...) Knowing how to read and write could be a big plus ... if your language matched the society where you landed. In a lot of places you could probably teach letters. Although, your lack of knowledge of social customs would hold you back. Your knowledge of hygiene and nutrition would help to keep you safe, as long as you were in a position to put the knowledge in use: If you are in prison, you would probably have to make do with what you are given. In a lot of places, folks would immediately dismiss you as an out-of-place foreigner, and jail you or push you into a foreigner's enclave. Lack of papers would likely be a big problem, and would get you jailed. From there, seems that you would have to get lucky or be incarcerated indefinitely, and consigned to labor for the rest of your miserable existence. In a lot of other places, your failure to respect your social betters would get you in trouble. Simply looking at folks directly is going to get you roughed up. Failure to answer questions with a proper honorifics will just turn a bad situation worse. You might be in rather big trouble as a disease vector. You might be a carrier of a lot of diseases which don't exist yet. And, at the same time, you would probably be susceptible to a lot of what is carried in the food and water, to which you have no tolerance. Folks with advanced knowledge might have an edge -- if they can get an audience. Problem here is that without credentials most won't give you any time, and even those of the day who presented what turned out to be true ideas had a long time to get their ideas accepted. (As a kind of example, consider Ramanujan in England.) Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]
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