Did you know that in the Norman Conquest of 1066, many Anglo-Saxons were murdered and their land stolen and given to the new Norman lords? Should England sue France for reparations? This is just one example of land conquest that has happened and will continue to happen all over this planet. It was only a matter of time before a foreign group migrated to North America.
The reality is that the people living here before 1500 were extremely primitive. They hadn't invented the wheel or a robust system of writing, they were so far behind the civilizations everywhere else (including South America) that no matter which civilization came to North America first, they would inevitably lose the conflict (almost all land in history was taken by conquest), any group capable of sailing over the ocean at that time had a huge technological advantage.
Furthermore, they were doomed to have a massive culling due to disease, as they did not have farm animals like the civilizations in Europe and Asia, so smallpox immunity was basically 0. THIS is what caused the so-called 'genocide', a vulnerability to those diseases is what killed over 90% of the population in North AND South America, but I guess that's the white man's fault because the Age of Exploration pre-dates germ theory and modern medicine by centuries.
Since we have now established the reality of the situation, could you explain to me who would have done a better job colonizing America? Perhaps the Ottoman Empire or the Chinese?
You talk about morals, the truth is those morals CAME from Western Civilization, so you can thank your lucky stars that Canada was founded by Europeans and not another group, because the indigenous group would have been completely wiped out or assimilated into the new culture.
Finally, I think it's odd that in common parlance, we ignore or excuse the bad actions of people from non-western groups, yet we have nigh-utopian standards for Western Civilization. What, was a system of law and justice not good enough? Free speech (at least in the USA) and freedom of expression and movement? Lots of 'systemic racism' hey? The horror!
You can bitch about what happened in residential schools, but please don't do it without also calling out the centuries of abuse that have occurred across the world and continue to this day. I worked with this young lady from China, she is a Uighur and she told me that she is thankful every day for escaping that hellhole and she is praying that some day she can get the rest of her family out.
Did you know that in the Norman Conquest of 1066, many Anglo-Saxons were murdered and their land stolen and given to the new Norman lords? Should England sue France for reparations? This is just one example of land conquest that has happened and will continue to happen all over this planet. It was only a matter of time before a foreign group migrated to North America.
The reality is that the people living here before 1500 were extremely primitive. They hadn't invented the wheel or a robust system of writing, they were so far behind the civilizations everywhere else (including South America) that no matter which civilization came to North America first, they would inevitably lose the conflict (almost all land in history was taken by conquest), any group capable of sailing over the ocean at that time had a huge technological advantage.
Furthermore, they were doomed to have a massive culling due to disease, as they did not have farm animals like the civilizations in Europe and Asia, so smallpox immunity was basically 0. THIS is what caused the so-called 'genocide', a vulnerability to those diseases is what killed over 90% of the population in North AND South America, but I guess that's the white man's fault because the Age of Exploration pre-dates germ theory and modern medicine by centuries.
Since we have now established the reality of the situation, could you explain to me who would have done a better job colonizing America? Perhaps the Ottoman Empire or the Chinese?
You talk about morals, the truth is those morals CAME from Western Civilization, so you can thank your lucky stars that Canada was founded by Europeans and not another group, because the indigenous group would have been completely wiped out or assimilated into the new culture.
Finally, I think it's odd that in common parlance, we ignore or excuse the bad actions of people from non-western groups, yet we have nigh-utopian standards for Western Civilization. What, was a system of law and justice not good enough? Free speech (at least in the USA) and freedom of expression and movement? Lots of 'systemic racism' hey? The horror!
You can bitch about what happened in residential schools, but please don't do it without also calling out the centuries of abuse that have occurred across the world and continue to this day. I worked with this young lady from China, she is a Uighur and she told me that she is thankful every day for escaping that hellhole and she is praying that some day she can get the rest of her family out.