Quigga wrote:Woops ok I'm still glad colonialism happenend. I mean, can you imagine another course of history? I can't. Nothing stopped Africans from starting globalisation from their continent. Hmm, I wonder why they didn't take iniative?
I can recommend 'Pragmatic Idealism' by Kalergi, a guy who is regarded as a 'founding father' of the Europa idea (actually the founder of the Paneuropean Union). You're probably not going to read it, so discussion is pointless
Come to think of it, I could start a video series reading it aloud and explaining.
Quigga wrote:I can recommend 'Pragmatic Idealism' by Kalergi, a guy who is regarded as a 'founding father' of the Europa idea (actually the founder of the Paneuropean Union). You're probably not going to read it, so discussion is pointless
Come to think of it, I could start a video series reading it aloud and explaining.
edededed wrote:For colonialism: (generally) Europeans wanted gold/silver/spices/etc.; they had military power; they justified it to themselves as civilizing the people and Christening them. Today, the justifications look less and less legitimate, and so now we look back and question it.
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On this day in 1875, three scouts saved the life of their commanding officer in a battle with the Comanche or Lipan Apache in southern Val Verde County; they were Isaac Payne, John Ward, and Pompey Factor. For this action they received the Medal of Honor.
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A community of the original scouts’ descendants still live in Brackettville today. Through annual reunions and preserving the Gullah dialect of their forebears, they stay connected to their unique heritage.
Steve James wrote:Anyway, it's interesting that only Africans were mentioned in the colonization talk. What happened to the Indians? Are they better off. What about India or China? Why do people who have it good at home leave? To improve the world? I'd say it was war, poverty, pestilence, destruction of the natural environment, over population, and greed.
Steve James wrote:Oh yeah, Rick Santorum made news by saying that Native Americans haven't contributed to US culture. Well, that illustrates a typical ignorance. There's a thing called food culture (a part of material culture), and Thanksgiving is all Indian. Europeans eat goose. Almost everything USAmericans eat has corn. How about tobacco and chocolate? Santorum also stated that there was nothing here until "we" got here. You know, it was just barren land and wilderness. I.e., there was no one here, and the resources weren't being used. Of course, there was the Iroquois Confederacy in the north and the Aztec empire. They were here and doing OK.
Well, that's why "we" need Native American history month. Otherwise, we have to take what the ignorant tell us is our history. FTS.
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