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Life Styles: Native & Imposed
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History; Posted on: 2012-10-13 19:44:15 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Just how did these peoples live before they came into contact with Europeans?
For decades now, African American leaders have been calling for a formal
United States apology for the American role in the slave trade, with
some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt
status as something they are owed for a legacy of persecution by the
United States. Mexican Americans in the
southwest United States seek to incorporate this region, including
California, into Mexico, or even to set up an independent nation,
Aztlan, that will recreate the glories of the Aztec empire, destroyed
centuries ago by the imperialistic Spaniards.
That we live in an age of grievance and victimhood is not news. But did
these peoples — these Mexican-Americans, these Native Americans, these
African-Americans — really lose more than they gained in their
confrontation with the West? Were they robbed of nobility, and
coarsened? Or did White subjugation force them to shed savagery and
barbarousness, and bring them, however unwillingly, into civilized
humanity?
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