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The question is: when did those Europeans cease to be Europeans and started to be Americans? Is there some overlap with the wiping out of the natives? Of course
by soco 2y ago
The question is: when did those Europeans cease to be Europeans and started to be Americans? Is there some overlap with the wiping out of the natives? Of course the distinction is insignificant when looked at from the natives' side, but there's a difference between European nations sending people to wipe out natives, and European people fleeing their countries to become Americans and en passant also wiping out natives. Or I didn't really understand your point.
- gessha 2y agoTo answer your question, I don’t think there’s a clear point where Europeans become Americans when they move and I don’t think it overlaps with repressions of natives. I think the people immigrating to the Americas all had many known and unknown reasons to move. While visiting the Ellis Island of Immigration in NYC, I read some of their records. You can tell from the recorded stories of immigrants. As a European who immigrated to the US in my adult life, I think of it as mixing of dyes. You’re no longer completely European and not as American as the ones born here. There’s beauty and sadness in the process. Also, my point was less about the missing natives and mourning them but about imagining what life would’ve looked like if the two cultures blended in a more peaceful way. This [1] is related to my point about peaceful coexistence, puritans, native Americans, etc. [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1198908282/the-lord-of-misrule https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1198908282/the-lord-of-misrul...