On Feb 26, 4:38 pm, "Macjoubert" wrote:
> Yakuts for example from the Russian Far East are anthropoligically
> similar to Native Americans, the Bering Strait Theory is the best and
> most plausible out there.
I've even heard of influences from ancient Phoenicia. And almost
certainly there must have been an even earlier "European effect" since
many of the Natives that greeted the Spaniards had myths about white-
skinned gods from the East.
In that regard, I wonder what's the latest news on the Kennewick Man?
> But in terms of immigration, using Native Americans as also immigrants
> is a Liberal ploy to quash anti-immigration voices.(" We're all
> immigrants bull thats shouted ever so often), last I heard Native
> Americans didnt build the great country, farm its vast land, or
> generate economic might among other things)
Ehm, that's not the point.
If I come and take over your house and enslave you and . your mom
and sister and wife and daughters, but I improve your kitchen and your
garage and transform your house into a mansion, and . and kill your
neighbors and take over their house so that "your" estate is now
twenty times as great, that's still taking over your house and
enslaving you and raping your mom and sister and wife and
daughters....
> On the other hand, its practical to state that the America we know
> today is so because of the boldness and the courage of the early
> Englishmen who settled and developed the land, broke away from tyranny
> and raised moral and political standards.
I'm not sure what you mean by "it is *practical* to state..." but I
would caution against such "triumphalist narratives"...the Englishmen
did what they did the same as the Mexicans today are doing what they
do...economics, pure and simple.
PBS has that great reality series "Colonial House" and you should
really, really watch the episodes to get a real sense of what it was
like...holy shit, but it wasn't about courage...people ate each other
if they had to....
> Thus these are the people who are hosts and those that followed them
> and adopted their ways to strengthen and embolden the country are the
> "hosts" , the rest are "guests" until completely assimilated.
It just won't work out that way. The days of guns and gunmen are
over. The hispanics, with their twelve year-olds in thongs and low-
rise spandex that fill so fully, will outbreed the "hosts"...it's the
Roman Empire in reverse -- the "latins" are now swamping the
"teutons"....
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