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**FinanseMikky** · 03-21-2012, 12:56 AM

Where are your sources that race is more of an issue in America than it is in Latin America? Black and West Indian people do get treated a lot worse in Latin America. Latin American sports fans can also be very racist, I know what gets said to black athletes in countries like Brazil. that would rarely ever happen at an American sports event.

I like how you evade my request for sources by simply asking me what I just asked you. Native American individuals in Mexico who have no tribal ties are very well intergrated into society. Do we see the same in the US? Nope. Like Incal said, they are sent to live in shitty reservations. And then when we discover that there are Uranium deposits under their reservations, we want to relocate them once again. I speak from experience living in both areas. Do you? Racism exists everywhere, but the level at which it exists in the US is generally not commonplace in Latin America.

---------- Post added 2012-03-20 at 10:04 ----------

Lol you gotta be kidding me...Reservations are far better then Complete Annihilation of a people in which the Spanish committed...

I have yet to see one Arawak or Taino
At least we can go see Cherokees today

---------- Post added 2012-03-20 at 12:40 ----------

To answer the question tho I think racism in the US stemmed from slavery just like racism did for other countries. In order to justify slavery you have to convince the world that the people being enslaved are less than human. The first slaves in the America's were Native people and the same excuse was given. They even took them to Europe to have debates to see if they were human or not.

LOL you gotta be kidding me... This was due to disease and overworking the Amerindian slaves to death. Which also happened very commonly in SSA slaves that were worked to death as well in the south. However, the Spanish never purposely gave the natives small-pox infected blankets as was done in the US.

---------- Post added 2012-03-20 at 10:06 ----------

Yes, they're living in reservations getting millions of dollars and other great, special benefits from our government so they can run casinos and whatnot.

We don't "send" them to reservations. we even let them have their own separate nations within our nation.

Have you ever been to a reservation? The land is a piece of shit. That is the reason they have casinos, they can't grow shit in those deserts. They stay there because they are trying to preserve their culture. They have really no other option unless they decide to integrate into American Society.

03-21-2012, 12:56 AM	#16
FinanseMikky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	Where are your sources that race is more of an issue in America than it is in Latin America? Black and West Indian people do get treated a lot worse in Latin America. Latin American sports fans can also be very racist, I know what gets said to black athletes in countries like Brazil. that would rarely ever happen at an American sports event. I like how you evade my request for sources by simply asking me what I just asked you. Native American individuals in Mexico who have no tribal ties are very well intergrated into society. Do we see the same in the US? Nope. Like Incal said, they are sent to live in shitty reservations. And then when we discover that there are Uranium deposits under their reservations, we want to relocate them once again. I speak from experience living in both areas. Do you? Racism exists everywhere, but the level at which it exists in the US is generally not commonplace in Latin America. ---------- Post added 2012-03-20 at 10:04 ---------- Lol you gotta be kidding me...Reservations are far better then Complete Annihilation of a people in which the Spanish committed... I have yet to see one Arawak or Taino At least we can go see Cherokees today ---------- Post added 2012-03-20 at 12:40 ---------- To answer the question tho I think racism in the US stemmed from slavery just like racism did for other countries. In order to justify slavery you have to convince the world that the people being enslaved are less than human. The first slaves in the America's were Native people and the same excuse was given. They even took them to Europe to have debates to see if they were human or not. LOL you gotta be kidding me... This was due to disease and overworking the Amerindian slaves to death. Which also happened very commonly in SSA slaves that were worked to death as well in the south. However, the Spanish never purposely gave the natives small-pox infected blankets as was done in the US. ---------- Post added 2012-03-20 at 10:06 ---------- Yes, they're living in reservations getting millions of dollars and other great, special benefits from our government so they can run casinos and whatnot. We don't "send" them to reservations. we even let them have their own separate nations within our nation. Have you ever been to a reservation? The land is a piece of shit. That is the reason they have casinos, they can't grow shit in those deserts. They stay there because they are trying to preserve their culture. They have really no other option unless they decide to integrate into American Society.
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