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Santorum: There isn't much Native American culture in American culture

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by justtxyank, Apr 26, 2021.

  1. adoo

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    are you too ignorant to understand the Indian Removal Act under Andrew Jackson's presidency ?​
     
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  2. KingCheetah

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    I don't think term life covers genocide.
     
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    Ditto for the African continent.

    ...Can't remember who said it, but it was back during the Civil rights movement of the 1960s. A poet said something summarizing the arrogance of Europeans who had come to colonize the "Dark Continent" and bring civilized behavior to the "naked savages" they encountered.

    ...Didn't seem to make any sense to the europeans that, maybe, the "savages" were largely unclothed, for example, because they lived in perpetual heat and humidity year-round in many parts of the continent. A lot of extra clothing might have made them more than a little uncomfortable...

    ...unless you liked wearing those large pith helmets, knee-high boots and balloon cargo pants with the extra pockets in them that the Europeans loved to wear while they traipsed around through the jungle...

    ...it would be like wondering why an eskimo wears heavy clothing all the time in the arctic.

    ...if you gave a damn at all about eskimos, I guess...;)
     
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  4. DaDakota

    DaDakota If you want to know, just ask!

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    Yes he is...he is very wrong.

    The founders didn't set up this country to be a CHRISTIAN nation, they fled persecution by the Church of England, but they were very clear in having a separation of Church and State.

    He is full of ****.

    DD
     
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    Mayflower Oprah to the Native Americans: You get a COVID-19 blanket! And you get a COVID-19 blanket!! And you get a COVID-19 blanket!!!
     
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    Alice Cooper knows. American culture is in entrenched with Native American culture. Some just choose not to see it. That's fine.
     
  8. Space Ghost

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    People will argue over the dumbest things.
     
  9. Nook

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    I’m down. Rape and plunder run through my blood. I basically ended up with my wife because I kidnapped her and wouldn’t let her leave.
     
  10. rocketsjudoka

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    Are you asking how the Aztecs and Incas were as advanced or more so than the Romans?

    Obviously the Romans had things like iron, concrete and the arch while the Aztecs and Incas didn't even have wheeled vehicles but they had a very sophisticated organizational structure that managed to keep vast empires united. The Incas had an empire that spanned almost the whole length of South America and going North South was longer than the Roman Empire going East West. Along this empire they had an ingenious system of roads along with a post system that could send messages along thousands of miles of mountains quickly. Probably faster than a message could get from Londonium to Rome.

    The Aztec capital of Tenochitlan was much bigger at the time that Cortez got there than any European city at the time and itself was a marvel of engineering being built up from marshy islands in the middle of a brackish lake. It was supplied by fresh water from aqueducts miles away in the mountains. It was not only supplied by the mainland but had floating fields growing crops that had been selectively bred.

    The Incas built cities and other structures on mountain ridges using megalithic rocks bigger than the ones used at Stone Henge or the Pyramids. They joined them so tightly that a sheet of paper can't be fit between some of the joints. The Incas empire didn't just stretch North South on a mountain spine it stretched vertically from subtropical valleys to bare Alpine ridges. They conducted horticultural experiments and figured out which crops to grow at different microclimates and built agricultural terraces going thousands of feet in elevation.

    What is perhaps most impressive is these empires did it without a true system of writing and were able to still keep track of the movement of goods, livestock, people and taxes.
     
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  11. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Are you too ignorant to see I'm referring to native american on native american supposed genocide thousands of years before Columbus showed up dick riding b****?

    If you gone talk ish know wtf the conversation is. It's the whole thread but you saw pgabriel and got excited. You need some poon
     
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  12. rocketsjudoka

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    Yes there was a lot of indigenous knowledge that the Europeans looked down upon because they didn't understand it. Roald Amundsen didn't become a successful Arctic and Antarctic explorer until he adopted the methods of the Inuits. Also the Australian Outback wasn't well explored until later in the 20th C. Europeans even though Aborigines had lived there for thousands of years.
     
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    We also know that the Inca performed successful brain surgery long before it was done in Europe or the rest of the world.
     
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    I'm actually going to thank Rick Santorum for giving me an excuse to nerd out about history and anthropology.
     
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    I'm amazed at any civilization that survived artic temperatures before modern technology
     
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    Dude how did they survive the Houston summers before AC???

    A bunch of sweaty t*tties and balls son.
     
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    ...and the desert, and the rainforest, etc...
     
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  18. ThatBoyNick

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    I don't practice santorumia

    I ain't got no crystal ball

    all I know that man can suck a fat one - specifically a Choctaw
     
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    While I don't disagree with this premise, generally, there were many voices who clearly knew better (with respect to colonial America and, ultimately, US treatment of Native Americans) but were drowned out.
     
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    Karankawa are a really interesting tribe of people.
     
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