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It’s because we are new. America doesn’t have any domainant original cultural memory. Our edifices are second hand European. Every other place from Rome or Indi
by jelliclesfarm 6y ago
It’s because we are new. America doesn’t have any domainant original cultural memory. Our edifices are second hand European. Every other place from Rome or India or Caucasus have had invasions and migrations and intermingling of cultures etc that paint everything in vibrant shades.
- the-dude 6y agoAmerica has not been invaded?
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoThe war of 1812 doesn't really count.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThe Native Americans would likely still object to the idea that the Americas were never invaded.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoPosturing for a completely unrelated issue wins points for the woke crowd, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand.
- the-dude 6y agoYou mean to get cultural meaningful intermingling, you shouldn't wipe them out?
- AlotOfReading 6y agoI'm not sure I understand how native Americans are unrelated to the topic at hand. They still exist, and there are still thousand year old villages in the US and Mexico.
- karatinversion 6y agoBut they are not particularly relevant in the discussion of the cultural memory of the modern United States
- the-dude 6y agoThe lack thereof. And in that light, it seems eerily relevant.
- pjc50 6y agoA United States where a significant fraction of the Native population had survived, intermingled, and developed their own 20th-century culture and architecture on a significant scale would be very different.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoNot like ..say..the melting pot of the Caucasus, Georgia ..or ancient Rome or like..Moorish Spain/Andalusia or Moghal India. It’s not An Invasion per se...America was colonized. The impact of invasions are different in history’s timeline. Regardess, those who reached American shores were the Puritans and their ilk anyways.
- the-dude 6y agoWhat is exactly the difference between an invasion vs a colonization? Genuinely curious.
- cpursley 6y agoThe time that it takes
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoI would imagine colonization happened for economic gain with the colonists benefiting. The colonized population were likely still governed by the locals who were controlled by the colonizers. For example, India was a colony of Britain. All trade was diverted to Britain to benefit them. The great famine of bengal for example was because farmers had to grow and send cotton to England rather than grow food for Indians. The economic activities were controlled by the colonizers armed forces. The British colonized India. The Moghals invaded India. Alexander, The Great...for example..tried to invade India, but had to retreat. It’s usually done with armies vs colonizations that is through trade. An invasion is when a military moved in and took over the government. The invaded country became the de facto territory of the invaders. And the invaded people have to live by the rule of the invaders. Example: Georgia was invaded by mongols and the Turks and then Russia. Each time, it became part of the other’s empire.
- the-dude 6y agoLike when America was part of the British empire?