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You don't have any evidence for that. All of human history is consistently filled with violence, every single day, and it still is. It's easy to criticize the
by Grakel 6y ago
You don't have any evidence for that. All of human history is consistently filled with violence, every single day, and it still is.
It's easy to criticize the successful, but each of us is the result of a global legacy of competitive murder, no matter your race.
- radford-neal 6y agoIndeed. The history of the Chatham islands is enough to dispell any notion that polynesians are somehow incapable of mass murder and enslavement. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands This history also illustrates that peacefulness is also within the capacity of any people.
- Grakel 6y agoWow, interesting. We should all feel very lucky that we live in a time where we don't even have to kill our own food, much less each other. And we're only like half way to real peace.
- totetsu 6y agoSome Polynesian Body armor was pretty bad ass https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-oceania/oceania-peoples-and-places/micronesia/a/kiribati-armor https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-oceania/oceania-p...
- markdown 6y agoThat is Micronesian, not Polynesian. It seems to be very common amongst Americans to think that all Pacific Islanders are Polynesian. Probably because of Hawaii.