Burn wrote:It's too bad the american indians didn't want to throw us out. I guess its good we killed them all.
Going back to shithole europe woud of sucked.
Maybe I missed school that day when it was explained that specialising in selling cigarettes, booze and casinos were also part of the rich culture of American Indians.
We made mistakes with the Indians and our governments at different levels have done their best to make better a bad situation.
Do you know of any non-Western countries that bend over backwards for their once-enemies? Great Britain is giving Protestant Ireland, Scotland and Wales their own sub-Parliament and the original inhabitants (Maori?) of Australia and New Zealand are given their own status in the country.
I can't say that the Kurds and Shiites of Iraq were given that luxury during Saddam Hussein's time. Or Adolph Hitler and the Poles, Czechs, French, and others.
Hell, even modern France, Germany, Italy and other European nations have shut out LEGAL non-European immigrants to jobs. Just look at those French Muslim riots a few weeks ago. French unemployment is about 25% for French people in their 20's, and it's near 50% if you're a legal Muslim or African in France.
In America we have the opposite problem, illegal aliens are getting jobs that legal Americans can't compete with. Tho the outcome will likely be the same, violent protests and riots if things don't get better soon.
-- and back on the ranch --
Much of the former Indian land was sold to us, ditto for much of the West including: Louisiana Purchase (from France to Mexico, to us), Gadsden Purchase (southern Arizona), Alaska (look up Seward's Folly) and much of the rest of today's America was conqured. The Indians were too busy killing each other to defend against our superior guns and technology.
Read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond, it's a damn good book, or rent the Nat'l Geographic DVD it's quicker.
-Jesse