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Originally Posted by lifer
Most Natives are infinately better off right now than they would have been if Europeans had never shown up in North America.
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I somewhat agree with what you are trying to say; in that there is some value in going from the stone age to the iron age practically overnight. And an analogy I often bring out is let's say aliens land, offer us all this great technology; but want Antarctica in exchange. We agree, and once we are a community in the galaxy we see that we got the shaft.
However in your example; many of those issues were brought about by the white man. Disease, pollution of drinking water, and IIRC the horse didn't show up in North America until the Europeans brought them over.