Culture is building a society. The opposite of culture is building a society on destroying another society. Its an oddly contradictory concept, true, but colonialism is perhaps the greatest harm mankind has ever done to itself.
Native populations all practice warfare. They do not practice genocide or eugenics. Even taking slaves is a way of exchanging culture among tribes. What they dont do is wholesale slaughter of entire peoples because their sky daddy said it was justified. Its a distinction of culture I’m sure is lost on you.
As an Ojibwe man myself, the beaver wars are very familiar to me. Do you understand what a proxy war is? Its when colonists use natives to fight for their interests and then fuck them over regardless of who wins. The only people who won that war are the Dutch. How fucking dare you
I agree that this is a pretty skewed definition of culture. It undermines everything that’s happened since (and is continuing to happen everyday). Every time someone tries a new cuisine, gets invited to a new festival, learns something new about history, learns a new language, etc. is adding to the culture
You are exactly correct. Constructive acts build culture. Building bridges between cultures leads to fusions of art and cuisine that beget even more culture.
Colonizers are the opposite of constructive. They are destructive. Colonizers invade, exploit, ostracize, and take. They subtract. You cannot build a stable culture on subtraction.
Canadians get the worst of both worlds. Not only did they invade and desecrate, they decided to adopt two colonizer cultures and name it their own. Two negatives do not make a positive here. Reparation and recognition laws are barely middle age by people standards and they’re already being ignored. Forgotten. Disregarded as inconvenient. None of them can smell the earth over their unending greed for the dollar.
I want to understand you. What is culture to you?
Culture is building a society. The opposite of culture is building a society on destroying another society. Its an oddly contradictory concept, true, but colonialism is perhaps the greatest harm mankind has ever done to itself.
Name one civilization not built on top of another
Inuit, aboriginal Australians, Maori, Sakha, are you seeing the pattern yet?
You realize the natives were constantly fighting among themselves. Making slaves of one another.
That there were several waves of immigrants over the thousands of years prior to the Europeans arriving.
Those waves had to fight one another for land.
Native populations all practice warfare. They do not practice genocide or eugenics. Even taking slaves is a way of exchanging culture among tribes. What they dont do is wholesale slaughter of entire peoples because their sky daddy said it was justified. Its a distinction of culture I’m sure is lost on you.
I suggest you read up in the Huron Iroquois wars. One tribe was decimated and their lands taken be the other.
As an Ojibwe man myself, the beaver wars are very familiar to me. Do you understand what a proxy war is? Its when colonists use natives to fight for their interests and then fuck them over regardless of who wins. The only people who won that war are the Dutch. How fucking dare you
…that’s very far from the definition of culture.
I agree that this is a pretty skewed definition of culture. It undermines everything that’s happened since (and is continuing to happen everyday). Every time someone tries a new cuisine, gets invited to a new festival, learns something new about history, learns a new language, etc. is adding to the culture
You are exactly correct. Constructive acts build culture. Building bridges between cultures leads to fusions of art and cuisine that beget even more culture.
Colonizers are the opposite of constructive. They are destructive. Colonizers invade, exploit, ostracize, and take. They subtract. You cannot build a stable culture on subtraction.
Canadians get the worst of both worlds. Not only did they invade and desecrate, they decided to adopt two colonizer cultures and name it their own. Two negatives do not make a positive here. Reparation and recognition laws are barely middle age by people standards and they’re already being ignored. Forgotten. Disregarded as inconvenient. None of them can smell the earth over their unending greed for the dollar.