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If they laughed in my face, then they, just like you, would simply be displaying their total IGNORANCE of modern day imperialism. Imperialism is the sending of people into another country, with "direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life" This is precisely what the top imperialists (Mexico, China, India, and the Phillipines) of the US economy are doing.
If you told these students that the USA is the victim of "imperialism", they'd laugh in your face, because you're an idiot.
Mexico - $35 Billion/year (soon to increase greatly)
China - $18 Billion/yr
India - $13 Billion/yr
Phillipines - $12 Billion/yr
You show as much ignorance with the (OFF TOPIC) subject of European and Native American life. Sorry, but I don't buy you "estimates", and even if I did, your use of the word "slaughtered" is wrong and ridiculous. By far, most American Indians in contact with European migrants died of European diseases, for which the locals had built up no biological defenses for. Unfortunate as it may have been, it doesn't comport with the meaning of "slaughter", which is a more intentional thing.
Yes, there were the Trail of Tears, but that was one facet of the overall picture, which liberals, like you now, try to use to demonize all of 19th century white America. For your edification, the overwhelming majority of contacts between White Europeans and American Indians were peaceful. The great majority of 19th century American Indians lived their entire lives many miles away from White settlements, and never laid eyes on a white person.
The genocide that you speak of is true, but it was relatively small in number, and is exaggerated due to the dime store novel industry, which made a fortune selling books to Easteners about the wild west. It was only the warring and violence books that sold the most copies. The ones about peace, trading, intermarriage, etc, didn't sell well. Consequently, people thought that the violence was all there was, due to the prevelance of it on the books they read.
As for genocide against American Indian tribes, they suffered that far more from other rival tribes, for hundreds of years, before a single European ship arrived in the "New World"
Secondly, the arrival of Europeans is one of the best things that ever happened to native Americans of the 20th and 21st centuries. How many of them currently choose to live in teepees, hunt game to survive, ride horses for transportation, wear clothing they made themselves from animal skins, and rely on witch doctors instead of trained American doctors in hospitals ?
And how many of them living today, have never watched a TV show, listened to a radio, listened to a music recording, never heard of a guitar, never touched a computer ?
Without European arrival and contact, they'd probably still be living their prehistoric technology level, without the wheel, without hard walls and roofs, without indoor plumbing, etc, as they did for thousands of years, up until the 20th century.
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