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Originally Posted by Footscray
Sounds like you are the one that needs to do more reading on it. Try 'Guns Germs and Steal' by Jared Diamond. What happened was inevitable. Living in the past only perpetuates the pain. Can I sue Germany for two great uncles dying in WW1? If not, why not?
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I'm not living in the past or even tackling the modern issues natives face everybody has their own ideas about how much of the burden both today and during the period of conquest lies with the entire society and with the individual. The point needed to be made that the diseases didn't simply run into each other any more than the continents conquest was some sort of natural organic progression that would have happened no matter what time period and what culture discovered NA, there was human choice involved over and over again and you can't simply dismiss their action as an inevitability.
I've read Diamond and while well written the underlying manifest destiny theme hasn't left it without it's criticisms of european bias even from the academic community. I think that if you consult enough sources, you might not feel blame or anger but find a little more sympathy is all.