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The story of Thanksgiving is the story of a migrant caravan

• ljhuihiuh 8y ago
  and that turned out great for the native americans
  • hirundo 8y ago
    No kidding. The Mayflower was the camel's nose under the tent. Had the natives known then what they know now, would there have been a friendly Thanksgiving dinner or a battle?
  • masonic 8y ago
    The Spaniards did far worse to the natives.
• eesmith 8y ago
  "refugees who had undertaken a perilous journey to flee religious and political oppression" Except for the part that they fled to the Netherlands first, then decided that Dutch culture was too libertine for them, and that their children were becoming too Dutch and not staying English. This makes them, to use the modern terms, not refugees but economic migrants. "There are reasons for this increase that we should try to address." Like the effect of decades of US intervention to subvert local democracies in the interest of US corporations? Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#Accusations_toward_the_School_of_the_Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f... ?