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To: Stepan12
The coming of the white man was a net benefit to the white man and the indian living in North America.

Well, if you consider being dead a benefit over being alive, as is true of the millions that died of disease.

Of course, the disease deaths (which exceeded the actual killings of native Americans probably by a factor of 10) weren't deliberate, and they would have happened even if the Europeans had visited in small numbers to conduct multicultural diversity seminars and then left; of course there was no understanding at the time of how infectious disease was transmitted, either.

16 posted on 11/21/2012 5:54:55 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

The destruction of nearly all of the New World Amerindians by pandemics of disease was also destined to happen when a an Amerindian civilization eventually attempted to colonize and conquer and enslave people in the Old World.


69 posted on 11/21/2012 9:07:26 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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