erikthoresen
Joined: 18 Feb 2010
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 Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:07 pm Post subject: hi |
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| The schools seemed to essentially be concentration camps, cultural and racial cleansing. The United States (at least IN the country, “legally”) must have been uncomfortable killing large groups of people, so they put their cultural values through the test of time, slowly getting watered down, but still not letting the people themselves vote. They are doing everything except killing them… So they have the ability to no longer recognize the any given tribe as legal, but give them no benefits at all. The reason the Navajo did off better than other tribes was because the United States government was NOT concerned with the land they would be receiving. They already considered it uninhabitable. I do not think that killing their culture is as bad as killing their people, simply because to spare some ones life when you wish them to die is an expression of some sort of sanity or mercy. It’s an expression of humanity from the Euro Americans. However in ruining their culture, they certainly had similar ideas in mind. They would water them down until it was no longer considered a “problem”. But here’s where my curiosity comes in. WHY is this the turn that humanity decided to take instead of one of benevolence? What is it that makes these people fear a separate culture? Is it fear itself? |
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