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Originally Posted by Type O Negtive
Native Americans...sad to say that there is not much left of their culture?
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That is why newcomers need to always respect the people and the place and culture of those who came there before. I think the Native Americans in America today are certainly better off than they were even 10 years ago due to more and more media exposure (though movies like Avatar and the like).
But it is simply wrong in general for people who come into a place and impose their way of life into a place. The culture of the United States in general, that is morally wrong, is that we glorify those who impose our culture through force or some other method like the settlers did to the Native Americans or the US army does to Islamic countries in the name of spreading democracy. If that is our common culture that Americans share then if we have no problem doing it to Native Americans or people in the Middle East, we have no problem doing it to our own people here. I know that New Yorkers do not like when hipsters gentrify a neighborhood. Put yourself in the shoes of a poor family in NYC, then hipsters come and by their coming, change the cultural fabric of your neighborhood. At first it seems ok but landlords know they can charge higher rent to the hipsters, and before you know it you cannot afford your apartment then you have to leave and you have so many cultural roots in your place. Wouldn't you feel that is unfair?
Communities that continue to grow and grow for the sake of growth die. Economically, culturally, and in their soul. Why do you think Walmart is so hated in many communities? Thousands of family owned businesses that have roots to an area go away when economic development happens, and usually it means Walmarts. Open pristine land which people enjoy and are required for our earth to remain healthy get paved over by growth and economic development through suburban housing. Once productive farmland paved over and destroyed by office parks. What was once a beautiful landscape has become an ugly vast sea of endless McMansions. When rural communities who enjoyed the open air and vast pristine wilderness see their land trashed by constant building of suburban housing for newcomers, it is a very sad day for them. Seeing that, many people who longed for the peace of the wilderness flee into even newer homes which temporarily are close to nature and thus destroy the very nature they seek to get near to and the process repeats.
I'm sorry but I have to say that newcomers need to respect those who came before them. History tells us the bad that happened when we allow newcomers to change things from the way they are to something else entirely without the consent of those who came before.
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