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Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by joelbooks: 4:41pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
The United States has a lot to be proud of: it is the most powerful country on Earth and a global leader in culture and innovation as well as international affairs, and has a well-earned reputation for freedom and democracy. But, like any country, it has its flaws, as well. And those flaws are important to remember and examine — even if many Americans would probably rather not think about them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smq89g0-Ygo This map begins by showing Native Americans' land in 1794, demarcated by tribe and marked in green. In 1795, the US and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo, carving up much of the continent between them. What followed was a century of catastrophes for Native Americans as their land was taken piece by piece. By the time the US passed the Dawes Act in 1887, effectively abolishing tribal self-governance and forcing assimilation, there was very little left. European settlers who arrived in North America found it filled with diverse, long-established societies. They may well have become sovereign nation-states had the settlers, and later the United States, not sought to purge them from their lands, deny them self-rule, and, once they had been reduced to a tiny minority, forcibly assimilate them and their land. These acts are the foundation upon which the United States as we know it today was built. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8618261/america-maps-truths 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by NNEWIsuper: 4:47pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
America, country built with slave labour 1 Like |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by tit(f): 4:50pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
Death to Amerikka |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by joelbooks: 4:51pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
tit:Why the hate though? |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by Burstit(m): 4:52pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
Are you implying that that's what they descendants of Othman danfodio are aiming to achieve? God forbid! 1 Like |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by MadamExcellency: 4:52pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
Was Barack Obama among the Land thieves and grabbers? Bush must be the leader of the land grabbers. USA is just a conglomerate of the world as it stands now. Every country is represented. |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by crackhaus: 4:55pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
Imperialism and colonization has always been the lifeblood of Americans, something they inherited from their European forefathers, and something which the forefathers themselves learned from the early Romans. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by illicit(m): 5:09pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
It's survival of the fittest.... And winners take all |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by BeLookingIDIOT(m): 5:12pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
Europeans have been by far the most aggressive humans to walk down this Earth. And that aggressiveness served them well. 3 Likes |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by Blue3k(m): 5:35pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
America didn't steal the land they conquered it. This is not a disputed or controversial fact. |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by spy24(m): 6:51pm On Nov 26, 2020 |
No mind them All this Western countries will be behaving like saints If it's China now or one third world country they will be talking about sanction upandan and their media will be tongue lashing as if they are the only ones that have the standard judgement of what is right and wrong 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by TheGreatIYANU: 12:15am On Nov 27, 2020 |
Like Native American people, like Gwari people of Bwari 3 Likes |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by AlphaSoul: 11:36am On Mar 26, 2021 |
joelbooks:The USA was ironically built on injustice. The white settlers with Federal and state support proceeded to stripe Native Americans of their fertile lands and forcibly moved them into Reservations. Never trust nobody... We live in a warring planet! Nuff said! |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by michresakidjo(m): 4:00pm On Mar 26, 2021 |
This has been the way of history.... Men are by nature unequal. Empires are forged by war. The Last Of the Mohicans ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by mysticwarrior(m): 2:17am On Mar 27, 2021 |
michresakidjo:greed motivates the forging of an empire, the British empire is a perfect example. 1 Like |
Re: Maps That Americans Don't Like To Talk About by sunboy(m): 4:41pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
tit: To your generation. Mumu |
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