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It's just kinda funny how you call americam 'settlers' while refering to the native inhabitants as 'noble savages'. And it's quite common knowledge that there are areas where they chased a bison heard over an edge.. but even though they did that sometimes didn't bring the bison to the brink of excistance. Plus they DID use the dead animals for food & such, whereas the 'settlers' merely killed them to wipe out the main food source of the natives.

Settlers.. savages.. ha!

 

Why is it always foreigners who claim to know the most about American history?

More grocerys now are selling buffalo meat. Are buffalo & bison the same?

 

The Native americans were in the stone age hen we got here...

Whites didn't kill the native americans.... disease did.

They missed out on about 10,000 years of evolution and needed to catch up.

They mixed with whites and the hispanic culture was born... everything worked out.

The Native Americans missed out on to much advancment because of a poor location... they were in the stone age when colonists arived.

What happened to the natives was genetic destiny.

 

Bullshit.

Additionally, people who are hispanic are of mixed white and spanish (mexico) blood, not white and aboriginal blood.

 

A good general rule is if you want your opinion to be taken seriously, don't start it with 'bullshit'. A reasonable debate takes the other persons side into account, and then dismisses each argument with facts or by raising reasonable doubt.

and where did the term 'hispanic' come from anyway? There is no 'Hispania'. Never heard this term till the 80's.

 

Nope, spaniards are pretty white, the term mestizo, evolved from the mixture of spanish and the native population which is almost entirelly the latin race.

There are many many blue eyed spaniards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo

 

wrongo. a good deal of mexicans (the hispanics i'm most closely aware of) are a lovely mix of spanish and aboriginal blood.

and i think the only reason the aboriginal americans hadn't destroyed their own environment was time. what, you think europeans were always the environmental monsters they are now? hardly. europens got along just fine within their environment until they became too successful for their own good. the same would have eventually been true with the aboriginal americans.

 

violence is natural. i just deal with it.

 

quote: There is no 'Hispania'. Never heard this term till the 80's.

Hispaniola, the island that Haiti and the Dominican Republic are on.

 

that's why you take both eyes

 

I can't believe they let you back in...... but man am I gonna puke now that they did

 

I'm really not anti-native or anything, but the term stone age really is fitting for their society's... most didn't make use of the wheel.

They lacked genetic diversity... and they needed to catch up. It may sound cruel, but its true...

I know its PC to blame ourselves for what happened to the natives, but it was destined to happen.

 

oh, yeah, as a note, referring to previous conversations, i forgot that "hispanics" refer to spanish americans. those in spanish influenced societies that are not spanish prefer to be called latino. but, again, i'll just refer to them as whatever they request. ;P

 

and mexican americans, but not all of them, are chicano. it's getting so complicated.

 

I make this problem real easy, I call them all "sir" or "ma'm" I find it to be rather universal.

 

that's because there is no right and wrong.

 

nature isn't very nice. it has no sense of right and wrong. what happened was a part of human nature. and yeah, we're natural, too.

 

People are disgusting.

 

yeah, it's true.

 

Clever... well not really.


They wouldn't have been completly annihalated if it weren't for their immunities... Why should I feel guilty about that?

Nature doesn't have any scope of morality... moralitys something people invented... nature kills off people and bunnies all the time.

I'm much more concerned with people left homeless now because of freaking tsunamis rather then something that happened several hundred years ago.