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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
I suppose a case could be made for the idea that the U.S. is assimilating or absorbing native American culture, that is what we do with every culture, but that's a far cry from genocide. It isn't as if we systematically execute native Americans, you know.
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That is what has happened. Comparing the numbers and inhabited areas there has been a marked diminishing. Geographically areas controlled by the indigineous people have pretty much vanished.
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As for their third-world living conditions, I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. Many tribes do live in deploreable conditions, and that is because they have spent more than a century being "cared for" by the state. The government tried to place them in a nice little isolationist bubble
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Oh yea by stealing their lands. Some bubble.
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and give them money, but the rest of the world advanced while they did not.
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Things would change if they got their lands back.
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In that way their plight is remarkably similar to that of most citizens of centralist nations. Ironically enough, some tribes have been granted special exemptions from state and federal laws/taxes because they applied for release from certain BIA criterion and regularly piss everyone else off with their prosperity.
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Not everyone has accepted blood money from the US government. It's also important to notice that not all who claim indigineous heritance really have some or any, some are claiming it purely to influence the politics of the tribes from the outside. Has happened and is not at all difficult to do.
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Don't confuse genocide with state-sponsored failure, and don't confuse Americans with their government. Many of us distrust, fear ...
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Well I don't really care what the Americans think of their state. I kinda do care about where the Americans are. You know, physically. Where they reside on this planet. And what they do where they are. That's what I care about and that's what the American's should care about too.
You were kinda repeating yourself there so I edited the end.