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This is a straw man that you proposed and then go on to refute. No one is implying Europeans didn’t face challenges and “bumbled through history”. Saying colon
by bergenty 4y ago
This is a straw man that you proposed and then go on to refute. No one is implying Europeans didn’t face challenges and “bumbled through history”.
Saying colonizers could learn a lot is sort of what ended up happening anyways, especially in the early days of colonization where plenty of skills to survive in a brand new continent came from the natives.
- kennend3 4y agoI'm not sure how you came to the conclusion this is a "straw man"? Did you read the article? his comment was directly copied from it : "Colonizers could learn a great deal from Indigenous resilience, as we all confront a twenty-first century that feels hauntingly like the seventeenth: beset by violence, disease, hatred." By stating they could learn a great deal does imply they "bumbled along". It also isn't very accurate as there was a lot of technology sharing at the start of things. The FN shared a great deal with the newcomers on how to survive here.