Ask any Italian, Spaniard, Dutch, or Pole, to say nothing of the East Indians: the English preach enlightenment, yet practice hypocrisy. ;-)
You sound just like my grandfather who fought with the IRA in the 1916 uprising. He died in 1960 but I thought he had been reincarnated when I read your comment.
Around 15 years ago scientists discovered several different instances of scarring on the bones of Native Americans by syphilis that dated to way before the genocidal maniac Columbus got his sorry ass here. There were around 100 skeletons found in FL around that time that, if I remember correctly, many of them had scarring created by syphilis, too.