[justa-hairyape]

The US has led the world on Civil rights. We were not the last great Slave Traders. Portugal and Spain were. Both European. And since I have about 1/16 American Indian in me, perhaps I might suggest that American Indians were actually one of the first conquerers to travel east from the high steeps of Central Asia. They have many similarities to Mongolians.

[NZerFromHK]

In fact many of the modern European critics of how Americans treated Indians convenient cite "historical evolution of justice" when they are questioned back about their own countries' historical colonial records. For instance, the official position of the modern Federal Republic of Germany declares that all human rights abuses done under the name of Kaiser Wilhelm II during the German Reich could not be compensated by the modern FRG because they were "not in violation of the rights and legal conditions of the times." So it is all glossed off.

But they refuse to apply the same standards when it came to things like the Siuox tribes etc.

[kingsurfer]

The US has led the world on Civil rights. We were not the last great Slave Traders. Portugal and Spain were. Both European. And since I have about 1/16 American Indian in me, perhaps I might suggest that American Indians were actually one of the first conquerers to travel east from the high steeps of Central Asia. They have many similarities to Mongolians.

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The UK led the world on stopping slavery, the US took a long time to follow.

The US only started getting invovled in civil rights in the 1960's. You had segregation for a heck of a long time.

M<y point is not to claim one country is worse than another but that in the last 2,000 years ALL "modern and civilised" countries have done barbarous things, the US included.