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To: headsonpikes; PapaBear3625
“The net result of Chinese colonization of Africa might just resemble the British colonization of North America (which didn’t work out well for the Native Americans)”

It might net out more like the Spanish colonization of South America.

Outside of the Caribbean, the Indians survived in Spanish America in such large numbers that most Mexicans, for example, are mestizo.

When was the last time you saw an Native American Indian from, say, Virginia?

On the Eastern Seaboard, almost all traces of the original native Indian populations were wiped out long out.

32 posted on 07/18/2008 2:22:28 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
On the Eastern Seaboard, almost all traces of the original native Indian populations were wiped out long out.

Not so. We may not live in lodges, run casinos, or be so visible. But there are tribal organizations right here in Pennsylvania and western New York. There are a fair number of our cousins still on Martha's Vineyard within a short drive of the Kennedy Compound. North Carolina, from where many of my ancestors hail, have more Cherokee than any other state except Oklahoma.

The stereotypical image of the Native American as a drunken sot, sitting around on a reservation and waiting for his next welfare check is more the exception than the rule.

Some of us are disowned by the political elite who pass out casino licenses because we've adapted so well to white man's ways that we've even married into white man's culture. But we're everywhere, probably even in your bloodline if you had an ancestor here before about 1750.

35 posted on 07/18/2008 2:46:09 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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