In the African American side of Instagram (the "woke" ones) believe that they were here first and that the "whites" made up the Slave Trade and Native Americans. They believe North America was stolen from them. True Story
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· 7 years ago
Back then it wasn't illegal immigration. They had no laws against foreigners or if they did they didn't have any means to properly enforce them
Wrong. It wasn't illegal, just immigration. The vast majority of the Indians didn't believe in property rights, but that land was communal: you can't illegally immigrate into land that no one has laws against immigrating to.
This is actually a good point. It's too bad (for the Native Americans) that they didn't have the ability to resist or repel the invasion of Europeans. Had they been able to do so, they'd have been able to maintain their way of life, regardless of whether we think their way wasn't as good as what was being imposed in them. The parallel to now is that the USA *does* have the ability to resist and repel invasion from those who want to come to the US but make it more like the place theyre leaving as far as laws, culture etc. There's the ability, but not the will to do so. Being called "racist" by those who can't distinguish between legal and illegal immigration is too harsh. Being called "Islamophobic" is too severe a consequence to go against "refugees" who want to implement sharia law and make the US like the countries that they're "fleeing."
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· 7 years ago
They also didn't have a system of writing, the hadn't discovered metallurgy, astronomy, physics, they were basically living in the Stone Age.
I think the Native Americans are embarassed because they got caught sleeping, while the rest of the world was building world wonders and writing symphonys they were running around in loin clothes and chasing bison off cliffs with tools made of stone and bone.
Oh boy, that's a whole lot of historical inaccuracy. They were not living in the stone age. Some have systems of writing. There were many different cultures progressing a different speeds. Most of whom were living comfortably while Europe was struggling with plague, war and political upheaval. If you are actually interested in this, I highly recommend "Guns, Germs and Steel".
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Shakespeare vs. Mik Mak pictograph
Roman coliseum vs. Sweat lodge
Japanese Steel vs. Flint arrowhead
Sir Issac Newton vs. Great Grandfather Eagle
You may have a point in saying they weren't very technologically advanced, but the point is it doesn't matter. They were probably very happy living their life as is, you can see it in some if the tribes within the amazon, that know about the rest of the modern world but still choose to live their traditional life. They don't need to be "saved".
Also, your analogies are not accurate. Just on architecture, the Chacoan, Pueblo and the Aztec people had extensive architecture, not sweat lodges. They were living a different, more sustainable life style which was overridden by a more aggressive culture. This happened hundreds of times in the history of the world. Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, the Romans, the English, the Spanish, the Russians.
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Yes and the world belongs to all human beings, Should the rest of the world sat idly by while these nobel savages sat and wasted a huge resource? Segregating a group of Mongolians who's ancestors were run over by the wheels of progress while enabling a lifestyle removed from responsibility is doing no one any good. In western Canada our Native population cost millions of tax dollars and their contribution to society is negligible; the reserves are ghettos of violence, depression, substance abuse, the populations are stuck in limbo being separated from their loincloth but unable to integrate into civilized society, all the while fantasizing about hundreds of millions of people leaving these continents to rot in some Tyler Durdenesqe war zone.
My ancestors came to North America in 1709 and we've paid more taxes and worked harder to build the idea of Canada than any Cree. If you want to be respected as an equal, then don't ask for special treatment.
Just a little historical point here. Even after the invasion of Americas by Europeans (because that's what it really was, an invasion) Native American tribes were still big players in national politics. Tecumseh and his role in early international conflicts in New England is well known, but lesser known is the empire built up by the Comanche nation in the southwest, which was a real military and economic threat to both American and Spanish/Mexican forces. There's a really cool article called "Politics of Grass" about it, but if you aren't affiliated with a university or something that has access to academic journals on JSTOR, here's the Wikipedia page based on the author's research. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comancheria.
The "noble savage" image is bullshit, fueled by pop culture that continues to represent Native Americans as uncivilized, un-modern, and in need of saving by white people.
Secondly, they all kinda got killed by foreigners.
That explains a lot...
I think the Native Americans are embarassed because they got caught sleeping, while the rest of the world was building world wonders and writing symphonys they were running around in loin clothes and chasing bison off cliffs with tools made of stone and bone.
Roman coliseum vs. Sweat lodge
Japanese Steel vs. Flint arrowhead
Sir Issac Newton vs. Great Grandfather Eagle
My ancestors came to North America in 1709 and we've paid more taxes and worked harder to build the idea of Canada than any Cree. If you want to be respected as an equal, then don't ask for special treatment.
The "noble savage" image is bullshit, fueled by pop culture that continues to represent Native Americans as uncivilized, un-modern, and in need of saving by white people.