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What in the absolute world have you been reading? What about neighboring tribes? You think they always traded berries and had a happy life? Do you know anythin
by cloutchaser 4y ago
What in the absolute world have you been reading?
What about neighboring tribes? You think they always traded berries and had a happy life? Do you know anything about Native American tribe life before Europeans arrived?
How about African tribes even recently?
What are you even on about? Nationalism has nothing to do with violence when compared with any other system of organisation.
But just take a look at chimps and how they treat someone from another tribe (hint: they literally tear them apart).
Do chimps have nationalism?
God this “everything was ok before western culture” crap is getting really tiring and ridiculous
- sofixa 4y agoSlaughtering the conquered enemy was the exception, not the norm, at least throughout Eurasia with whose history I'm most familiar. Was that the norm in the Americas? Considering the negligible amounts of historical data preserved about many of civilisations there, can one even make such a sweeping conclusion? Even if that were the case, significantly more people lived in Eurasia so that would still be the exception for the generic human population. It has nothing to do "western culture", but with the evolution of warfare from the "Cabinet wars" to nationalistic "total wars". Colonial wars were often with brutal consequences, but again, massively slaughtering the native population was the exception, not the norm ( Herero and Namaqua genocide). The vast majority of humans conquered in the last few centuries weren't slaughtered en masse for the sake of it.