How many of you know that the Americas were conquered by germacide??
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Most of the world is inhabited by people whose ancestors at some point came from someplace else... and in many cases their current location and who is still there was decided by warfare, up to and including total extermination of the peoples who were there before.\n\nFor some reason, very few of the conquering peoples emphasize the brutality, bloodiness, etc. of their victories. You can find some blatant honesty in the Bible (look closely at Genesis and Joshua). Most histories skim over it ... "There were some other people living where we are now, but our ancestors fought with them and now here we are," just about covers most histories anywhere you go on the planet.\n\nI'm not saying that this is just or morally right. It isn't. What I am saying is that what happened in the Americas wasn't exactly a novel or unique experience. It's what happens most anytime populations undergo major geographic shifts. And it totally sucks for those who lose the war, whether defender or invader.
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I think all people should be aware of this history.  Brazil was especially bad about slavery.  Slaves were cheap and expendable labor, and thus no care was given to their treatment, health or comfort.  All native Americans (North and South America) made slaves of their enemies.  In many South American civilizations, such slaves were used as sacrifices to appease the gods (Incas, Aztecs, Mayans and Toltecs to name a few).  What about the Romans and Greeks?  They made slaves of anyone they could get their hands on (including Africans).  The same is true of China.  The same is still true in the Middle East. The fact is, that in the US Europe and Canada, we saw the error of our ways and fixed it (made it illegal).  In fact, in America, we fought a war to end it that cost well over 600,000 lives.  How much more dedicated to ending slavery can you get?  Mexico cannot say the same (nor can many South American countries).  Mexicans just want something to b1tch about.  They're just made because we don't want them coming in illegally and living off of our hard work.
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Well before the Europeans first came to America there were an estimated 9 million Natives living here.\nby the end of the 1880's that number was just over a million\n\n90% were killed by the new diseases brought over \nwhole tribes just vanished over night!\n\nthen after that the American government practiced Eugenics on Native women up until the late 1970's \nThe Native American Woman's Health Education Resource Center has documented abuses carried out by the Indian Health Services (IHS), Job Corps, and other agencies on which Native American women were forced into sterilization so they wouldn't breed any more little redskins...\n\nI believe the official number of victims is just over 65,000\nbut the case study only looked at 12 tribes. so most of us think that number would rise quite a bit if the whole truth got out.\n\ncant tell you about Africa but I'm sure Nelson Mandela could share a few stories...
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Since your all more or less brainless (or just hate digging up the facts).\n\nyesterday was a day without an immigrant, not an illegal.\n\nCinco (not Cinque, thats French) de Mayo is the 1862 Battle of Puebla where the Mexicans said Goodbye to the French Army under the power of Napolean. It has nothing to do with raping women and celebrating a country that failed them, it has to do with winning an epic battle against what was the strongest army in the world.\n\nOh, and if Mexico had not beaten the French, the USA would have been split down the middle forming two countries to avoid the massive expanse of power that was happening, and the rest of the world forces feared for the other powers. A bit like today really.\n\nSo for once, you can say Thanks to the Mexicans, because they saved your arse.\n\nSo please stop being so dumb. Please. Your all embarrasing yourselves. And for your info, its not a day off either.\n\nAnd i find it totally ironic that after telling the Mexicans to bugger off home, you now want to celebrate theyre holiday. How stupid can you be?
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It is very cool that in our modern day world there are still parts of the are is still unexopled with many undiscovred plants and animals. I reminds me alot of Sir Colon Doyle's lost world. This must have how it been when europeans founded the amazon and reported back to europe.  I just hope they keep it nice and not let to many people go into it and explore it. Because if they they will probably destroy it or deminishing it's beauty and that would be a crying shame. I will cross my finger and watch joyfully to new developments.  With bad news around every bend it is good to hear something that will uplift my spirts.
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Olmec, Izapa, Teotihuacan, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Huaxtec, Purepecha,Toltec and Mexica (Aztecs), In 1519, the native civilizations of Mexico were invaded by Spanish troops numbering about 600 soldiers, who brought with them superior weaponry and old world diseases. Early Conquistadores was Hernán Cortés, who entered the country in 1519 from a native coastal town which he renamed "Puerto de la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" (today's Veracruz). Contrary to popular opinion, Spain did not conquer all of Mexico when Cortés conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521. It would take another two centuries after the Siege of Tenochtitlan before the Conquest of Mexico would be complete. The conquistadores (conquers) were just that! A bloody murdering army out to plunder.\n With slaughter…victory, they spread north and west to what today is Americas west coast.  How many natives in what we call America joined the above people in being victims of their slaughter?
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What would be a reason to colonize any land?  Why did the Indians come over here way back when the land was connected to Europe?   Hunger for food, wealth, saftey and life.   It is rather silly to equate our feelings and our present laws with the actions and rules that were prevalent in those days.   It was nothing at all to kill for survival and greed in those days.    The Native American also killed, pillaged and raped his neighbor for numerous reasons and it was an accepted fact.   I don't think you can find any other nation in the world that has coddled and repaid their indigenous people as well as has the USA.  Check it out!  Go to an old plantation in the south and look at the slaves quarters, then look at what they came from. Early death in the disease ridden jungles, right? They had it better here as slaves, except with bad slave owners, of course.  Think about it!
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I agree but the invaders here had to go on a long-ass ship ride, they deserved a break.  And honestly i am tired of hearing about that crap because it was a long time ago, those people then need to hear about it not the people today.\n\nMexicans are most definitly invading here and now!
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I am not Native American but would like to share with you the texts that helped me to better understand the Native American culture and my understanding of the atrocities that occurred. Many Native Americans were killed, raped, starved, displaced and betrayed by the settlers to America. The quote from Chief Red Cloud above is probably the simplest and most accurate way to portray the betrayal of his people. \n\nMany tribes were reduced to a minisclule fraction of thier numbers in mass masacres (in which only the white men had rifles) - the most famous of these was the massacre at Wounded Knee. Eventually the tribes in thier dwindling numbers were resigned to reservations and virtually starved because of the fact that they now had only limited hunting lands and the settlers had slaughtered (almost to extinction) the buffalo - which was the Native Americans staple food source. A very similar thing happened here in Australia to our Aboriginal tribes.\n\nThere is so much to know on this topic and I would advise looking into these:\n\n"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (book)\n\n"Savagery and the American Indian" by Ken Kirby (film documentary)\n\nand checking out this web site for any more documentaries on your Native People.\n\nhttp://shenandoahfilms.com\n\nYou will not only learn of the atrocious behaviour of an ignorant government through this but will hopefully discover a culture which is rich in warmth, respect and mysticism.
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Interesting stuff.  I wouldn't mind if we were not alone in the universe. I found some discussion of this stuff on the internet, but if you have better sources, please post them \nThis is an article about Inca stones and the whole archeological find \nhttp://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm\nsome pictures here. about 1/4 down the page\nhttp://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/Peru/Peru.htm
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What Europeans are trying to take over lands in the Americas?  I haven't heard of any lately, so the Monroe Doctrine couldn't be invoked.
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Hmmmm. . .Interesting question.\n\nNo, he's not responsible for mass murder.\n\nHe is responsible for being one of the first in a wave of Europeans who would decimate the Indian tribes through communicable disease.\n\nSo was Columbus's voyage to the New World responsible for the deaths of many, many people?  Yes, without a doubt.\n\nDid Columbus murder them?  No.
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I see many similarities between Ancient Rome and America today. Both expanded their holdings using War, and then assimilated the populations into their own, whether they want to be or not. Both rule absolutely depend-less on how their peoples feel, and America shall go down in the hands of "Barbarians" just as Rome did. Everything that is big becomes small. that is Nature.
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Nothing New About It\n\nhttp://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html\n\nIn 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that \n“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation \nextends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the ''conquista,'' \nSpain tried to impose on Mexico \na common western language, religion, and culture, \nand to the degree it was successful.  \nIt was also anti-American.  \nWe should remember \nthat the Spaniards were building the great cathedral \nat the Zocolo in Mexico City \na hundred years before George Washington \ntook control of the Continental Army \nat Cambridge, Massachusetts.  \nHere are two different world views, sharing the same continent.\n\nIn his article, Clash of Civilizations?, \nSamuel P. Huntington reminds us \nthat cultural differences may cause future wars, \nand that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''  \n\nThe U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.  \n\nHuntington writes, \n''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,\nand the world will be shaped in large measure \nby the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations \n\nThe most important conflicts of the future \nwill occur along the cultural fault lines \nseparating these civilizations from one another.'' \n\nIn regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, \n''During the past decade, \nMexico has assumed a position \nsomewhat similar to that of Turkey. \nJust as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe \nand attempted to join Europe, \nMexico has stopped defining itself \nby its opposition to the United States \nand is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''  \nHowever, \nunlike Canada, \nMexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population \nthat has not yet been integrated into modernity.  \nThis native population also carries \nan unconscious weight of resentment \ntowards the Spanish conquest, \nwhich it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S. \n\nMexico's indigenous population \nis one of the contemporary strains in that society.  \nSub-Comandante Marcos \nand the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people \nis a prediction of what is to come in Mexico \nif that strain cannot be relieved.\n  \nThe Mexican elites have decided, therefore, \nto reduce this strain by sending north \nas many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.  \nInstead of solving their own problems, \nwhich might entail a reduction of their status, \nthe ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going\nand let the U. S. handle the cleanup. \n\nA top adviser \nto past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari \ndescribed to Huntington all the changes \nthe Salinas government was making.  \nWhen the advisor finished, Huntington remarked: \n''That's most impressive.  \nIt seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico \nfrom a Latin American country into a North American country.''\nHe looked at me with surprise and exclaimed: \n''Exactly!  \nThat's precisely what we are trying to do, \nbut of course we could never say so publicly.'' \n \nWhat also could not be said publicly \nis that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.  \nIt will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.\n\nMany Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,\nMexico has to restructure its economy \nand regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.  \nFor over a century, \nMexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols \nof a lost but glorious indigenous past \nto motivate its plans for expansion. \n \nD. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel, \nThe Plumed Serpent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the ''reconquista'' continues unchecked \nfor the next twenty years, \nthe U. S. will be a fundamentally different society than it is today.\n\nThere will be more poverty and low-wage jo
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Countless. America was colonized by Spain. There are millions of immigrants. You should count people in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay
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yes, I am certainly aware of this.  North America has 3 countries, Central America has 7 or 8 (I forget) and South America has a lot (sorry, I don't know that either).\n\nI think it all started when we called ourselves The United States of America.  We were already refered to as "The Americans" in England (since England owned the Colonies and Canada I guess it was a natural thing to do when refering to the far away place.  We still do it today when we speak of African or Asian people).\n\nIt isn't so much of a stereotype as it is a missuse of words.
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Back to sqaure one, my oft repeated answer to such q's (apt, and anyway  it does get me two points) \n\nI wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayfair, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots.\n\nSo this is gonna happen with the 'greasers' as you seem to allude to the people of Mexican descent in your polite, but hard hitting questions in the immigration section of Yahoo Answers!