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Sure it was. It was how the whole of North America was colonized. White settlers broke treaties and settled on land they weren't supposed to. This was mass ille
by QuercusMax 4y ago
Sure it was. It was how the whole of North America was colonized. White settlers broke treaties and settled on land they weren't supposed to. This was mass illegal immigration too.
- cato_the_elder 4y ago> This was mass illegal immigration too. Not really. Colonization is a very different phenomenon. So is conquest.
- AzzieElbab 4y agoHow does one thing fix the other? Post below pretty much explains how irrelevant this comparison is. Pre-state borders?
- QuercusMax 4y agoNever said it did, but people have moved across borders since time immemorial.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoIt's correct that people moved around since forever. But I think applying the the concept of illegal immigration to colonization of Americas doesn't make sense. The indigenous Americans didn't organize their societies as nation states. So, I doubt that they had "borders" in the sense used here. Supporting this is the fact that their cartography wasn't very advanced. Here's how their maps looked like: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/338-features/maps/7549-maps-south-carolina-catawba-map https://www.archaeology.org/issues/338-features/maps/7549-ma...