Brought to whom? The people's of the America's who practiced slavery and incessant raiding, murder and warfare against each other? Who practiced ritual mass sacrifices of their own peoples? And yet who never developed a philosophy of compassion that would stop such evil to any extant, as was done at least to a degree in the West? Who never developed science or technology or political sophistication? Who could only live in superstitious tribes hunting each other?
Oh I'm sorry, is the West not perfect like your California Dreaming Running With Wolves soccer mom fantasies of the Noble Red Man?
LOL, you're a child. You're not even aware you're dehumanizing the former people's of the Americas. By not requiring of them the personal and cultural developments of humanity, you relegate them to the level of animals and dehumanize them. Oh sorry again, all cultural norms are equal? No they're not, freshman with the big eyes. No they're not at all. Some are right, and some are wrong.
How can we tell the difference? Easy. Let me show you. Get out of college - you don't need to finish your classes. I need to hit you on the head with this stone hammer because we're raising your village today. Why? Well I could discuss the inter-village balance of dominance status vis-à-vis the feedback from ecological stress through hunting boundary changes as they constantly re-adapt to herd migration routes, but all of that is just pointless Western cultural impositions wrongly interpreting my way of life because of inescapable, innate bias. You see, from my true-speaking point of view, you just have to die because you're not of my tribe, mofo. And that's equal to any other belief, according to your own cultural equivalence beliefs. After all, who's to decide?
Oh look, Columbus is in the harbour. He's not of our tribe, either. Let's see if he's as stupid as you are.
(500 year later) I guess he wasn't as stupid as you.
I had my Women and Ethnic Studies professor read your post. She says you’re a crazy right-winger and that Western Civilization has been a net drag on the earth. America was an Eden, a perfect paradise in balance with nature in which aboriginal peoples didn’t waste a thing, until Columbus came. Who am I to argue with her?