Quote (imshenny @ Feb 5 2024 10:44am)
Wouldnt call that nonsense…rather disrespectful to the millions killed. Quote from Wikipedia:
The population of Indigenous Americans is estimated to have decreased from approximately 145 million to around 7-15 million between the late 15th and late 17th centuries, representing a decline of around 90-95%.[59]
Mistreatment and killing of Native Americans continued for centuries, in every area of the Americas, including the areas that would become Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile. In the United States, some scholars (examples listed below) state that the American Indian Wars and the doctrine of manifest destiny contributed to the genocide, with one major event cited being the Trail of Tears.
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That’s going off topic a little, but if you search taiwans history, that’s basically what happened. The party that lost took their army to Taiwan, and killed/oppressed the natives, and that’s how modern Taiwan came to be
I will bet my life they did not account for the introduction of new diseases into their numbers.
There was a war for land and they lost. That is how the world was for the entirety of existence until maybe 100 years ago. It really rubs me the wrong way how in this case people go out of their way to make it seem like the United States is illegitimate. Zoom in your map ap to any other nation and you don’t see sectioned off portions saying who used to rule the land.
Forgive me I don’t have anything to say about Taiwan because I don’t really care.