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Most of central america and the caribbean is like this, from my experience. I'm not convinced that it has to do with the two separate currencies.
by trophycase 6y ago
Most of central america and the caribbean is like this, from my experience. I'm not convinced that it has to do with the two separate currencies.
- 0x8BADF00D 6y agoIt is not politically correct to state the reasons for this. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_cultu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_cultur... Unfortunately, some cultures have this as a part of their history. They need to be taught a different path. Edit: In my other comment I was flagged, so I want to make sure I'm not misunderstood. I am not making a moral judgement here of any kind. I'm just trying to say, there are cultures out there that have no history of the Judeo-Christian faith, until much later when it was imposed by colonialists. I think this is a net benefit, because their cultural history before was to kill someone when it started raining or some other natural event.
- riffic 6y agothis is an extremely bad take.
- 0x8BADF00D 6y agoIt isn't. For example, in the Indian subcontinent, honor killing of the bride and practices like sati were widespread and culturally accepted. Only until the British colonized these countries were these types of practices stopped. There are still native tribes in many places on the earth that practice cannibalism; if you were to approach these tribes, they would capture you and cook you. We can all agree this is a backward practice.
- empath75 6y agoSeriously have you ever even met someone from Central America.
- selimthegrim 6y agoUh there was this little thing called the Mogul Empire you might have heard of, that tended to frown upon sati.
- empath75 6y agoThis is one of the dumbest comments I’ve seen on this site. It’s been 500 years. 500 years ago, the catholic church was burning people at the stake for heresy and vlad tepes was impaling peasants. I’ve spent a lot of time living with the Maya people in Guatemala. I was raised Irish catholic and they’re more catholic than my family is for sure.
- throwaway2048 6y agoYep, the Aztec might have been brutal, but its hardly like the Spanish were any less so, and for similar religion fueled reasons even.
- kragen 6y agoThe Spanish were, as far as we can tell, dramatically more brutal.
- pnako 6y agoThan the Aztecs who used human skulls as construction material?
- kragen 6y agoYes, by orders of magnitude. The Aztecs sacrificed thousands of people; the Spanish sacrificed millions.
- Darmody 6y agoWhy not trillions? While it's true they killed a lot, like most empires 5 centuries ago, they weren't as bad as the others. Hernan Cortes defeated the whole Aztek Empire with 600 men. How? Easy, he had multiple tribes helping him because almost everyone of them wanted the azteks gone. That means they waged war against natives and they won. It has nothing to do with sacrifices. From a total population of around 45 million, around 95% of them died smallpox and other deadly viruses. Cortes even married an indigenous woman and had children with her just as a lot of other conquistadores did. The Catholic Kings legalized and promoted mixed marriages almost 500 years before it was legal in the US. That's why from Argetina to Mexico you can find millions of natives, millions of mixed people and millions of europeans.