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Yeah, they moved. Away from here, for many reasons, often under bad situations. And most no longer exist, and are thus irrelevant to the discussion of lineage o
by vel0city 11mo ago
Yeah, they moved. Away from here, for many reasons, often under bad situations. And most no longer exist, and are thus irrelevant to the discussion of lineage of current towns.
Insane you're really arguing a suburb of North Texas is older or at least as old as Rome or Athens.
So yeah, as an identity, this area is extremely young in comparison. It absolutely does not draw its roots back 16,000 years. We are not an extention of the Caddo people, they were not an extension of the first peoples who were here.
> Because we have mainstreets, buildings, blocks, community centers, parks, American-style squares...
Seems to me we're talking urban design here! That's kind of the whole point of the article, looking at urbanism in Europe to the US. Maybe you're imagining some other topic, but urbanism is deep in the discussion overall. I don't think nomadic groups had a lot of thought to how wide their highways were or planning our their parking lots.
- defrost 11mo ago> Insane you're really arguing a suburb of North Texas is older or at least as old as Rome or Athens. That's your strawman. I merely pointed out the area you live in has a long history of civilisation. As pointed out in part by @1659447091 upthread, and as does North America in general - there was a great variation in culture across that area, some parts had very stable communities and reportedly taught the Europeans a thing or two about trade agreements and democracy <shrug>. There's an odd bit in the HN guidelines Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; seemingly that's a hard concept for some. You have a nice life. All the best.
- AnimalMuppet 11mo agoIf you're going to cite the guidelines, I thought your "not a hard concept for most" was rather out of line.
- defrost 11mo agoI agree .. It was a throw to now removed usage by the person I replied to in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342642 That and a few other choice phrases were well over the line. They significantly edited their comments after I started using their own words in my replies. Cleaning up after I quote the guidelines citing their usage leaves me looking the worse .. but so it goes. I have a genuine interest in human history across the globe, they had a visceral reaction to the mere suggestion of prior occupation and use of land in Texas .. let's just mark that down to them having a bad day.
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- vel0city 10mo agoYou know what's snarky? Suggesting a suburban city actually draws it's roots to 13,000 BC when it definitely doesn't. Suggesting it does is a disservice to those people who were forced away.
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