Hey, we’ve tried applying there. Canadian law, like EU law, requires employers to consider even moderately-skilled Canadians before highly-skilled immigrants, so unless there’s a serious shortage in a particular field, it ain’t gonna happen.
Back on topic: when we’re counting the deaths of Amerinds by disease, are we counting the ones where the US Army gave them hospital blankets taken from cholera wards? Nasty.
Look, if he needs to twist my words to even make a side point in the thread, why bother?
I said the US gov’t had an active role and he or you can certainly argue that point but I’m not going to be pinned up to some straw man for his or your amusement.
No, it was simply nitpicking the errors in comparisons the USA USA USA camp was making.
And now is where I point out that such an influx is more a referendum of wealth then of quality of government.
Well, surely if the government was bad (i.e. land, labour and capital are employed inefficiently) the nation would have less wealth, wouldn’t it?
In any case, I’m pretty sure the Berlin Wall wasn’t put up to keep those pesky West-siders from sneaking East for free haircuts. If a government takes steps to keep all of its citizens prisoners, I take it as pretty serious evidence that it’s a really really bad form of government.
You shouldn’t. Smallpox and other diseases wiped out around 90% of the native population. Everything else was just icing.
90% disease is the figure I’ve heard too. But I can’t remember any reference for that and I didn’t want to get into a debate as to whether it was 90% or 80% or whatever.
My point was to make a qualitative distinction between (say) the Ukrainian case, where most (say, 75%) of the deaths were a result direct and purposeful State action and the Amerind case, where most (say, 75-90%) were not.
And much of that happened centuries before the major influxes of Whites into Indian territory. Measles, influenza, and smallpox had largely depopulated most of North America in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Racism is essential for our survival. For a capitalist society to function, there must always be the oppressed, and the oppressor. If there is no hate, then there can be no joy, because once the darkness is taken away, the light has nothing to be juxtaposed against, and so becomes dimmer. If there are no poor, then there can be no truly rich. Once the opposite of something is taken away, the original loses its value. Man will always thirst for more, we will all thirst to become the alpha male. No matter how we try to suppress it, our deepest primal instincts are the root of our behavior. George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World both showcase the dystopias caused by trying to create a utopian society. There is no way for everyone to be pleased. Although both books are just ideas by two men, you can see the truth in their arguments. Look at the communist smurfs for example, although they lived a happy life, there was still one smurf who was mad at the world, and there was still evil lurking to pounce upon them. Even the seven dwarfs with there happy forest were not all pleased. Rather than racism stop, it will most likely be refocused somewhere else. Throughout history we have seen this as the case. The native americans, japanese, blacks, mexicans, the focus will continually change, and there will always be an unequality. We cannot live in the garden of eden.