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Old 09-03-2008, 11:30 PM
 
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I don't think it's really possible to say British or Spanish were better than the other. In Peru, the Spaniards hunted Indians down. In Mexico though it was different because the Indians had large impressive cities and an advanced civiliation which the Spaniards admired. The Spaniards didn't conquer Mexico just on their own -- they had plenty of help in some of the Indians who were fed up with the Aztecs.

It was Indians -- such as the Tlaxcalans who guided the Spaniards to Tenochitlan because they figured the Spaniards could defeat their long-time enemies, and the Aztecs were feared because of the human sacrifices they were doing -- not on themselves but other Indians -- Tlaxcalans and others.

You can see how some of the Indians such as the Tlaxcalans might have seen the Spaniards as a lesser evil especially with a religion that outlawed human sacrifice.

I don't think you can really compare because the Spaniards came at a different time in Europe, a post medieval Europe, and by the time the British came, Europeans (British, Spaniards, etc) had evolved, post Enlightenment, Magna Carta and all that. It all left it's mark though on our societies today.
Oh it is possible to day. Historians even compare both the Spanish and the English to describe how "less bad" the Spanish were to the indians than the English.
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:33 PM
 
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You dont know where the term "indian giver" comes from?

The British gave the Indians a "gift".
Uncleaned blankets from smallpox patients.

Once they learned the natives were susceptible to European diseases, they used it to their advantage.
Of course all that happened well before microscopes, serological testing, and an understanding of the viral causes of disease.

Back then Europeans didn't know about bacteria much less viruses, so you're giving them a little more credit than is owed them. It was inevitable -- when one population lacks immunity to a pathogen being introduced.

The Indians in Mexico died from small pox also --- so don't say it was only the British. The Indian population dropped to about a million in Mexico with 500,000 to 800,000 African slaves. Interbreeding began to provide immunity and so the mixed population grew.
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:37 PM
 
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Oh it is possible to day. Historians even compare both the Spanish and the English to describe how "less bad" the Spanish were to the indians than the English.
You mean it's possible for the Mexico-can-do-no-wrong types. Indians in Mexico have it pretty bad today. If there's any starvation or malnutrition, it's with Indians -- you can see the Tarahumara Indians in Juarez and Chihuahua, begging on the streets all the time.

Pizarro of Peru should erase any notion that Spaniards were all saints.
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:40 PM
 
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You mean it's possible for the Mexico-can-do-no-wrong types. Indians in Mexico have it pretty bad today. If there's any starvation or malnutrition, it's with Indians -- you can see the Tarahumara Indians in Juarez and Chihuahua, begging on the streets all the time.

Pizarro of Peru should erase any notion that Spaniards were all saints.
I never claimed they were "really good" to the indians. I said before they committed atrocities like the English. None of what they did was good to begin with, it was just a better treatment of the indians. They did not deliberately drive them out of their land and kill them.
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:41 PM
 
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Oh it is possible to day. Historians even compare both the Spanish and the English to describe how "less bad" the Spanish were to the indians than the English.
You mean it's possible for the Mexico-can-do-no-wrong types. Indians in Mexico have it pretty bad today. If there's any starvation or malnutrition, it's with Indians -- you can see the Tarahumara Indians in Juarez and Chihuahua, begging on the streets all the time.

Pizarro of Peru should erase any notion that Spaniards were all saints. Some of the difference was when Europeans came up on large cities and what they saw as a "more civilized" society versus when they encountered more nomadic types. As far as mixing -- that occured in the USA as well, many Americans have Native ancestry, it happened since the days of Pocohantas.
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:43 PM
 
Location: California
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Of course all that happened well before microscopes, serological testing, and an understanding of the viral causes of disease.

Back then Europeans didn't know about bacteria much less viruses, so you're giving them a little more credit than is owed them. It was inevitable -- when one population lacks immunity to a pathogen being introduced.

The Indians in Mexico died from small pox also --- so don't say it was only the British. The Indian population dropped to about a million in Mexico with 500,000 to 800,000 African slaves. Interbreeding began to provide immunity and so the mixed population grew.

Again, you are assuming that I'm defending the Spaniards for no reason. You are obviously not really reading my posts.

And you dont need all kinds of technology to know that some diseases are contagious. And you dont need advanced technology to realize some people are more susceptible to it.

People weren't idiots before google.
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Old 09-04-2008, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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One thing that is overlooked in this thread is that today's English based cultures treat the Mestizo Hispanics better than the contemparary (sp) Spanish based societies.
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Old 09-04-2008, 09:03 AM
 
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One thing that is overlooked in this thread is that today's English based cultures treat the Mestizo Hispanics better than the contemparary (sp) Spanish based societies.
Doesn't Mexico have a mestizo President? Venezuela has a partially Black president?
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Old 09-04-2008, 09:15 AM
 
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I never claimed they were "really good" to the indians. I said before they committed atrocities like the English. None of what they did was good to begin with, it was just a better treatment of the indians. They did not deliberately drive them out of their land and kill them.
That's not entirely true....

"They now found themselves opposed to a new kind of human being who waged war à outrance, inspired by a terrifying religion which enabled them to use treachery, hypocrisy, cruelty, torture, and massacre in the name of a God of Love; who were indifferent to the suffering they inflicted and superhumanly stoical in bearing suffering which their own conduct entailed for themselves..."

Atahualpa, Pizarro and the Fall of the Inca Empire (http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/white.html - broken link)
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Old 09-04-2008, 12:22 PM
 
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Mexicans didnt suddenly arrive in LA. Mexicans have always been very present in Los Angeles. And it goes both ways, but right now crimes by Mexicans are being highligthed because of the immigration debate.
the4 mexican population was not always that high alot of mexicans fled during the mexican revoloution. and as years went by the population grows and immigration occured as well. im not talking about mexicans who were hear when california was annexed. and even then the mexican population was lower. the fact is most mexicans lived in what is present day mexico. the same with texas nobody wanted to live in those areas.
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