Native cultures around the world are isolated and yet also dwindling.\nMost of these groups have based their relationship with a higher power through nature, wilderness and geographic realities.\n\nThey are often nations within nations.\nTheir voice areinexistant on the international diplomatic scene and their rights to be, and sustain themselves, are constantly being challenged.\n\nI don't really have a question... other than: do we have a responsibility to take their reality into consideration ?\n\nReligion that proselytise, backed by government policies and especially by strong financial interests are still today the core cause of their survival pressures...\n\nPlease share you thoughts on the matter...
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should we take their reality into consideration ? yes.\n\nwill religion that proselytise will do it? does not look like it.\n\n  both major religions in world today are the religions which call their own beliefs to be only truth. \n\nchristianity do not get converts till they finish off the local culture. for accepting ancesters of iserilies as their own or accepting jesus as only saviour etc will not go with native beliefs.  christianity will not accept any native belief as it is not written in bible thus false by default.\n\n somebody asked a question on YA why christian missionaries destroyed local culture.  most people said their soul was more important than culture. that is the mind set by organized religions.\n\nsame goes for islam.\n\nthere was a time when buddhist have done similar things. though few buddhists used actual sword they used other mean methods extensively. they tried to malign hindu avatars. they actually invited foreign invaders to attack indian kings more than once. the fault of the king was that he did not converted to buddhism. \n\nthey just got boomranged when last muslim invader they invited did not converted to buddhism as others had done. instead all buddhist area of india is now muslim majority area. from afganistan to bangladesh.\n\npoint is those seeking converts can go to any extent. they may even think there are doing a favour. or just feel superior and that they had hit the jackpot. there being charitable by collecting useless local currency and giving them real money. whatever.\n\nAmy is right when she said native cultures are doomed. \n\nYou know my parents and other older relatives say there was a time that every mango tree had a different flavour. all good in their own way.\n\n mango seed was used to grow new plants. and each plant used to be unique depending upon the soil and neighbouring environment . growing plants by seed took more time and resultant taste might not have desired taste. then the era of Kalami mango came. and most of the varieties disappered. just because they used stems from a single tree for whole gardens.\n\nnow there are hardly 5 or 6 types and all of them taste the same. but there is not much we can do. most flavours are already lost .
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You are correct in your analysis and I agree with everything you say above. It is a shame and a terrible mistake what the USA are doing around the globe, but especially in the Middle East.\n\nThe reason for their unsubstantiated belief of superiority can be found in their religious doctrines and in the massive economical, political and military power they have accumulated.\nIn fact they are one of the worst nations on the planet and their bloated empire will crumble and fall as all empires have before. The decline has already started, and if you want to understand what is going to happen to the USA, read about the end of the Roman Empire. The parallels are staggering.
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To take this further, i've often wondered of those who joined the war effort, the highest percentage of those who volunteered (per capita) were American Indians. \n\nFrom the American Indian perspective, war is viewed as a major disruption of the natural order of life and of the universe. Native American peoples conceptualize no separation between mind, body, spirit, and "religion," while the western society world-view (that of the U.S. majority) embraces a reductionistic/separatist conceptualization of a mind, body, and spirit. Thus, a more holistic paradigm of self, spirit, and nature is embraced by American Indian and Alaska Native peoples. Warriors are viewed as people who are placed not only in physical danger, but also in spiritual danger by their participation in war. All tribes see the warrior as sacrificing self (purposefully exposing oneself to trauma or even death) on behalf of the people; it is a role and an undertaking worthy of the highest respect. Thus, only the most serious reasons legitimize war. Veterans are held in the highest respect in each Tribe. The warrior tradition explains part of it, but defending one's home and way of life has always caused us to volunteer, even if its oversees.
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this world is various and wonderful because of such kind of differences.\nall of them will have such a embarrass situation that they have different ideas and they should struggle to insist on his believes.\nthat is one thing ,on the other hand ,there is sth ,they cannot compromise,such as religious belief, diplomatics between nations,of course, the leader in power their aggressive planning .in such situation above ,no body will choose the peaceful  way to solve the differences.\nwar is crucial ,but it is also a type of life .through the war ,we can learn from this lessons ,we can learn to cherish peace ,we can compare and improve the grate intelligence of human and so on .
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This is actually a problem that has been going on across Latin America (Mexico, Nicauragua, Honduras, Peru, etc) for a very long time, and the reason the USA never seems to do anything is because as each of these nations changes its government from pro-US to anti-US to pro-US again, changes our official response to the action. When the government doesn't like us, this is the crime of the millenium, but when it goes back to liking us we tend to forget about it (Nicauragua, as an example). It doesn't seem to matter who is in charge of these countries, the indigenous people always seem to get the short end of everything.
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I see what you are getting at but, "The Seeds Of Human Abuse" has been around soo long that, we as Humans have evolved to learn new safeguards of "Hatred,Religious in-differences,& Political Pawns that help create War. I truly believe that, if we are to continue as a species of Educated & Decisive creatures, then we as Humans have to conform to other resources to (Clean-Up) our activities with Cleaner & Safer alternatives to fuel & Protect our Planets waste. Hatred is such a useless word that it prevents people from attaining their reall goals in life.We do have a big problem w/our Politicians & Diplomats World Wide. It seems fair to say that, A Politicians Life & a Diplomats Lives are somewhat exatly the same. They have learned from (Old School) ways to decieve the public in getting exatly what they want, but not for the very people that put them there to report if our goals for Global Unity have been met. t's really sad to say but, The Churches all seem to want to say that their Religion is better than the next, & really not passing the words of Faith. They should (Walk Their Talk). It would be nice if the World as we know it were one Goverment w/no Boarders.We are stuct w/all the lies that were ever told by our World Leaders.The only way that we can come clean is to have (One World United Goverment w/no Boarders) One for all,all for one.
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"Now" was a poor way to start this ?, they have been mixing for as long as cultures have existed.  Welcome to human evolution.  All cultures have different values, and almost all cultures have individuals with the wisdom to see their own culture's disadvantages and other culture's advantages.
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I dont think its religious at all. Most hate and fighting amonst the world, religions and races all boil down to lack of undrstanding ones neighbors. This makes people scared, starts rumours and fears, and then all hell breaks loose. If you are on one side you are a terrorist (which is good propoganda and a VERY GOOD REASON to explain to the rest of the WORLD why they can kill innocent people) if you are on another side you are a hero. At the end of the day its all boiling down to Money and Control though. Africa is the forgotten continent by the west at the moment, why? because it doesnt have oil... oil makes the wheels of Industry move. And thus even with wars and genocide taking place.. not many actually gives a shit... Maybe thats why we dont get involved in other peoples wars. We have our own wars like hunger, famine, drought and racialism to sort out. Which we are doing our best at. The Rich get Richer and the Poor get nothing, exept maybe a bullet in the head, inexchange for oil ofcourse.
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DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
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Foreign exchanges are constantly being done. Students coming here to study while ours travel there. International summer villages take place all over the world where children from all countries come together and meet and find out more about one another. When our children and young people see that man is man......and that beliefs set aside, we all breathe, feel and bleed the same.......they start to understand one another. \n\nI feel that as we get older, our minds are closed. Changing them sometimes takes an act of God. If we start with out children and put our hope in the children, perhaps in the future peace will be ours. Just a thought.
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Because in the scheme of things, the rest of the world doesn't care about Africa.  The biggest and wealthiest nations support other countries.  But they don't support places like Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, etc.  What do these places have in common?  The race of most of the inhabitants of those places is the same.   It's a culture and ethnic reason why they are so far behing.  Costa Rica doesn't have that problem.  India doesn't have that problem.  Spain doesn't have that problem.  You think about it, and it will become clear.
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The native Australians think the same thing. The monarchy is a tradition, and a very expensive one at that. I would like to know why that tradition is upheld because they have no power. they are basically useless.
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Excellent question. Not many people these days bother to question how to prevent or get to the root causes of problems.  The global economy will drive a global job market which will loosen our nationalistic concepts of borders.  In truth, that sequence is already in full swing and we are beginning to comprehend our problems as global, that everyone of us is connected and what hurts one nation of people ultimately hurts all of us.  A huge issue related to your question that really hasn't emerged yet, but, it will soon, is this:  Since the beginning of human history, we have immigrated for jobs and opportunity, for freedom and safety, to escape religious and political oppression, and to go somewhere fresh and unspoiled, perhaps as pilgrims, to carve out a little kingdom of our own away from lords and masters, away from the decay of failing civilizations.  For the very first time in all of our time on this planet, we no longer have a fresh, unspoiled, truly free place to go because of air travel and phones and satellite communication . . .and intercontinental missles. Civilization can now reach into whatever place we go to start afresh with our own visions.  Immigration has been our species pressure valve, or escape.  And, interesting, those who immigrate are the healthiest of the species in the long run, historically, in that they are usually escaping putrid social, spiritual and political decay.  What will happen to mankind now that there are no more wildernesses in which to start afresh?  What will happen when people who are disgusted with a place and there is no other place left any less disgusting to be?  What will happen when the average man or women no longer has a chance to create and enjoy a NEW society and it remains determined always by a dominate group's definition.  This worries me.
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Hi.  This is a very interesting question and one that is close to home for me. I am a home educator and when I first began home schooling my children, like the year before, I brushed up on history.  So many things were difficult to tell my children, namely, the beginning when so many lives were lost during the Europeans taking over the land. I think what we walked away with year after year (now 10 years of teaching this topic) is that the native americans at first were quite puzzled as to why anyone would want to fight over this land, as they did not even view it as their own. The land didn't belong to them any more than the white man. If I am correct, they believe the land was there by \nGod(s) and we are to replenish it and respect it. White believed what ever they could take by force, should be theirs. Now I do not set around blaming Europeans any more than I hold present Native Americans responsible for the killings that some of tribes attributed to. But I do believe that lack of compassion is taught in our school books, when introducing America to our children. There are many Christian history books that I have bought and read and taught from however, that do teach this compassion to the original people, the Native Americans.  Interesing also is that some folks do not believe "native Americans" were the native people, but that vikings such as Leif Ericson were the first in North America.  Or maybe the Asians, who came across the Bering St. before the ocean covered it...and that is where native americans come from?  Sorry to be so lengthy. I just love history of America and this topic is near my heart.  God bless!
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It was COUNTROS - Lord of imaginary borders!!!   Actually, countries arose naturally out of the territorial nature of mankind. Individual caves belonged to individual cavemen, separate hills and plains belonged to separate groups of men and women, separate kingdoms controlled separate regions, and so on... Nothing was ever established to begin it all, it was simply accepted because everyone throughout our history divided the lands more and more.   I think that countries should exist, to break governing responsibilities down further than one man to rule all, but countries should never rival each other. Additionally, different countries have generated different civilizations, and with them different values, lifestyles, artforms, and countless different ways to view life itself.
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I think it has a lot more to do with social conditions than it does god. Contact with Europeans didn't help them any. I know much social unrest was created in Africa when European nations tried to create borders in Africa with out considering relationships between tribes. Bush would only give money to help the AIDS crisis in Africa if abstinance education replaced condoms. This is part of his Christian ideals, but condoms would help much better than abstinance. All the Hindu people I've ever met have been wonderful, intelligent people. I think their religion is beautiful and deeply meaningful. I'm glad you like your god, I'm glad it works for you, but I don't think it is fair to put your god above someone elses just because of the social conditions they live in.
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THAT ONE WOULD TAKE QUITE A BIT OF RESEARCH. ISOLATED TRENDS IN THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES DO NOT ACCURATELY REFLECT GLOBAL TRENDS, NOR DO POWER-HUNGRY SUPER-POWER COUNTRIES' TRENDS NECCESSARILY REFLECT ON SMALLER NATIONS, LET ALONE ACCURATELY PORTRAY THEIR OWN PEOPLE.