Submitted by Claxamazoo on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 00:51.
Clearly the Europeans loved North America more than the Native Americans because they fought harder for the land.
If the Dodgers show up in Detroit to play the Tigers, we don't say "Ohh, the Tigers were here first, so they win". You play the damn game and see who comes out on top. You want your culture to be the dominant culture on the landmass? -Then fight for it. If you lose; you should have fought harder.
They gave the Natives Smallpox. It wiped out a large portion of their population. The Natives fought MUCH harder than the invading europeans, and could of very easily overtook them had their numbers not been culled.
Submitted by Claxamazoo on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 00:39.
That's a valid point. The US was one of the first nations to purposefully engage in biological warfare. Maybe a better way to phrase my opinion would be to say that they should have fought better, not harder.
Still, I stand by my original statement. If you want to keep your culture, fight for it- and win.
Another fun fact. The natives "learned" scalping from watching white men do it. For every indian scalp that a white man brought in was met with a reward. The indians didn't take too kindly to this and decided that turnabout is fair play. So yea. Fuck the white man.
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If the Dodgers show up in Detroit to play the Tigers, we don't say "Ohh, the Tigers were here first, so they win". You play the damn game and see who comes out on top. You want your culture to be the dominant culture on the landmass? -Then fight for it. If you lose; you should have fought harder.
Still, I stand by my original statement. If you want to keep your culture, fight for it- and win.