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"On the other hand, it still upsets me to think how, Maybe, a land is taken over without any due respect to the original citizens."

Then perhaps we should ALL hand our land back to Neanderthals?

What many don't realize is that European colonization gave the "original citizens" the ONLY culture that has ever succeeded there. If it wasn't for that, the "original citizens" would still be eating each other for dinner and sacrificing their children to the "Gods".

What many don't realize is that European colonization gave the "original citizens" the ONLY culture that has ever succeeded there. If it wasn't for that, the "original citizens" would still be eating each other for dinner and sacrificing their children to the "Gods". And what Neanderthals are you speaking of? Everyman ever born was born with a brain, and intellect.

Anyways.

There was a very successful culture already living here. They may not have been socially cultured, but they existed. After the world wide flood, these "Neanderthals" did pretty good on their own, considering they survived to that point of "European Colonization". Personally, I see nothing wrong with us being here now. However, I felt a tiny bit of sorrow for some of the American Indians. Just as I did for the captured and tortured slaves, of all cultures past to present. And I honestly didn't know that there were cannibals in what is now America? I knew they existed in some other countries, and some islands. But like I professed, maybe I lack some knowledge. I'm sure that makes me a Neanderthal too!

>>What many don't realize is that European colonization gave the "original citizens" the ONLY culture that has ever succeeded there. If it wasn't for that, the "original citizens" would still be eating each other for dinner and sacrificing their children to the "Gods".<<

Do you have evidence that blacks in South Africa sacrificed their children and practised cannibalism before European colonization? Or are you just making the stuff up, based on your personal opinions of blacks?

I have certainly not heard of cannibalism and child sacrifice being practised in South Africa. Cannibalism has been reported in New Guinea in the Pacific, while child sacrifice took place among the Aztecs. But I have never heard of such things happening in South Africa as a cultural practice.

What many don't realize is that European colonization gave the "original citizens" the ONLY culture that has ever succeeded there. If it wasn't for that, the "original citizens" would still be eating each other for dinner and sacrificing their children to the "Gods".

That cannibalism bit is a cheap shot and most likely WRONG. it's always been a tendency in human history to paint the enemy as barbarian cannibals -- the Persians and Egyptians said that about the Greeks, the Romans said that about the Celts and GErmanics and the English said that about the Irish.