DaveOJ12 t1_iujnndw wrote
Reply to comment by decrementsf in TIL the United States government has a National Eagle Repository, which provides Eagle feathers and parts to Native Americans for cultural and religious purposes. by tranquilrage73
The cynicism is strong in this one.
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decrementsf t1_iujv5no wrote
Not particularly. Native Americans are the winning team.
The Romans arrived in Britain and killed everyone. Then ran towns and turned Britain into the jewel of the empire leaving behind a cultural and scientific tradition. The picts, the scotti, raided and killed everyone. Before settling and building trade routes to benefit of all. The Saxons arrived and killed everyone. Before settling in and building out trade, cultural and scientific advances of their own. The vikings arrived and killed everyone. Before making settlements supporting trade routes and intermingled into the resulting culture to come out of that.
We're all interspersed. The Native-Anglo-Scottish-Prussian-Somali of America. We're a pirate colony. There is no nation on earth we can not provide talent to be competitive against. There is no other country that have that same resiliency, they thrive competitively in one or two industries -- but not all. By also offering the greatest individual freedom of any country on earth that's a powerful draw to skim off the top 1% everywhere. They all come to risk and compete trying the pirate life. To come and kill and conquer in the most brutal competitive system. But then intermingle and blend in sharing cultural and scientific best-of mix.
Excluding anyone from the pirate ship is evil. We all benefit from contributions of the best-of from all peoples. This is the merit of diversity. The winning team takes the best from all and repurposes it to their own advantage.
froggrip t1_iuk3x53 wrote
I wasn't sure where you were going with that for a moment, but it's very well put. Though I have no clue what this was in response to.
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