or can we say same thing about Spanish Genocide to Maias?
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Genocide is killing a group.\n\nThe Shoah (Holocaust) was a specific genocide carried out under Law by the NAZI regime.\n\nThe Turks have never acknowleded their genocide against the Armenians.  The Germans and Austrians have apologized for their mega-murders of innocent men, women, and 1,500,000 children.\n\nBTW Japan has never apologized for their genocide against the Chinese.
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Well it sounds great with 1907 standards, one nation one language this all good; as long as it does not keep going into one religion, one leader, one race, just like it did in Germany under Hitler just a few decades after Teddy said these things. I have no doubt, if he was alive today he would tweak his idea and rhetoric according to what happened in the last 100 years. I am not Hispanic but I know that Spanish was spoken in parts of US way before English was adopted as an official language (just a few votes ahead of German and Dutch by the way), are you going to kick them out because they have been speaking Spanish since before the US was founded?
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What difference does that make? He murdered people that lived within the boundaries of his political domain, so even if he didn't consider them to be "his own people", the rest of the world DID. (Just like the Jews that lived in Germany during the time of Hitler's holocaust.) Those Jews WERE Germans, "his own people", whether he would agree or not. \nI'm not sure I'm understanding the point you are trying to make with this. Is there one?
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Oh my...\n\nI have never read such an uneducated opinion on US History in all my life...\n\nYes, I agree.....do some research, read some books... \n\nTHEY should get the blame? Hello-it was the EUROPEANS who came to the western land and brought slaves with them to work the land in this "new world".  The United States only abolished slavery after many years of bloodshed and pressure from the citizens...but they didn't welcome these former slaves with open arms... These men and women had to go through many more years of hell to get equal rights....\n\nAnd the Native Americans should feel lucky for the Casinos? Are you kidding me????? The Europeans raped their lands, their families, forced them to assimilate to "christian" culture....and they should be grateful???  To this day, the federal government is screwing the Native Americans.... \n\nGo to my link below...\n\nAnd, who do you think the United States are???? \n\nWe are decendants of slaves, Native Americans forced out of their lands, Hispanics, and yes...those Europeans you are talking about. It's not like those who created the US officially are a totally different type of people who went around "fixing" everything. \n\nThose that need to be blamed are long since dead.... but we can learn from their mistakes...and make sure we know the real history of what really happened....
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110% agreement about your conclusion concerning France. Spain has already, for all intents and purposes, been defeated. \n\nLet me try and put this in context for the brain dead liberals:\n\nWhen the people in a country have been given the opportunity to form a government that answers to the people instead of the other way around, a government with leaders elected by the people with guaranteed rights and freedoms - and a small minority of Islamic radicals fights to prevent this, using terror tactics and the killing of thousands of innocent men, women and children - how can you possibly call these demented dirt bags, "freedom fighters?" \nJust what the hell is your definition of "freedom?"
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Ya got me!  It's not about the points; it makes me feel good when I know the answer, just like back in school.  Only no one asks me for the root causes of the Spanish-American War at work, more's the pity. I know in my heart I'm not helping them.  I just like the exercise.  Guess you'll just have to keep failing kids that plagiarize, even from middle age history geeks like me!
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I think that the vast majority of Britons have forgiven Argentina (and Argentinians) many years ago. We recognise that Argentinians suffered far more from the junta than we did. We love Pumas rugby team. We envy the polo ponies. We chuckle at the welsh tea rooms.\n\nA few fools pretend that there is bad feeling. Those same fools think that all Germans are Nazis. Such idiocy is a disgrace to all civilized people. \n\nOn the other hand (!) we can never forgive Maradona :-)
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Only if they are personally repsonsible - which is unlikely. You cannot impose collective punishments, particularly for historical events - to do so would be as unjust as the original crime. It would be no more justified than arresting every black man in a town because one black man committed murder 30 years earlier.\n\nIt should also be borne in mind that it was not only white men that indulged in slavery - many slaves were captured and sold into slavery by rival tribes or by arabs. Slavery at the time was not generally recognised as wrong - attitudes and recognition of basic human rights have come a long way in the last 200 years. No slave trader would have considered that they were doing anything wrong (as indeed they weren't on a strictly legal basis). If any slave traders should be punished, it should be those who continued after slavery was made illegal.\n\nTony Blair's intention to use the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the UK to express regret at slavery is about right (I guess he had to get something right eventually). There is no need to apologise because the people who should be apologising are dead, as are the people who should be apologised to and the slavery industry was not recognised at the time as anything other than a legitimate business, taken in the context of the times. It is only now with hindsight that we see how truly awful slavery was and in that respect an expression of regret to the descendants of those affected by slavery seems about right.\n\nNeither racism nor sexism are by any means exclusively the failings of white men.
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What if.....\n\nAll the other side has to say is, "We will cut off the hand of the aggressors!"?\n\nOr, "Did the Nazi Holocaust really happen at all?"?\n\nOr, "Israel is near annihilation."?\n\nOr some equally worthless and barbaric statement? \n\nWhat then?
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There wasn't much of a coherent argument. People were scared because of the Panic of 1893 that the US was running out of natural resources and capital, and businesses feared that they would need to have new land to be able to be competitive in the industrial world. The actual expansion that took place was justified by accusations that Spain was abusing its colonies, and so we had a moral obligation to come to their aid, but that's clearly not why we went to war with Spain.
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no it wasnt the spanish who made KKK flag...mind you its not the KKK racism thing... its actually against the spaniards..seem to me you're intrested to know the pihilippines..holla me if u want to know all about it... \n\nand it was discovered first by spanish so nobody knew what its called before. email me for more info
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No\nMaybe becoz they kicked France butt out!\nAnd no honey ur not annoying\nnothing wronge by tellin the truth!\nlol
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You are one stupid dago. You do realize that the anglo saxon race is the one that kept it's blood lines pure in the new world, while the spaniards slept with every red injun they could find and made all these mongrel mestizo nations, don't you?
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i think most filipinos think negative about spaniards & spain due to i the colonization era but i think its time to move on and appreciate the cultural heritage left by spain.\n\n\nspain & philippines share a lot of cultural similarities especially the roman catholic tradition, fiestas etc.\n\ni wish spanish was not abolished by the govenrment if it was not abolished then presently that is the 3rd official language of the country.
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There has been no "Cuban genocide", at least in the 20th century.  \n\nCastro may have killed maybe 10,000 to 20,000 people, depending on different versions, and how many died or were killed trying to escape on rafts or boats to Florida. Castro claims Batista killed about 20,000 people during 1952 to 1959. However, others believe the total number is actually around 5,000 to 10,000. Earlier dictator Machado killed a lot of people in the late 1920's and early 1930's, but the total is probably less than 5,000. \n\nHowever, nobody has ever called these deaths "genocide", since they were not systematic exterminations, as was the case of the Nazis, but really political violence, repression, etc.\n\nThe closest Cuba has ever been to genocide was the "reconcentration" campaign used by Spanish Tyrant Valeriano Weyler agains Cuban peasants durign the War of Independence (1895 to 1898). In this campaign, peasants were forced to abandon their homes and land and sent to concentration camps. Over a million peasants were "reconcentrated" and not less than 200,000 died of disease and malnutrition. It is said that Hitler was inspired by Weyler's strategies when he developed the extermination camps for Jews and other people he deemed undesirable.
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Nope.  Not unless there's a serious national uprising to stop the genocide in various African countries, like the Sudan.  \n\nIt's important.  And it's very surely genocide, don't let anyone tell you it's not.  Genocide, by definition, is killing a group of ppl based on their ethnicity, religion, belief systems, etc.\n\nLike Gandhi said, "be the change you wish to see in the world".  If you are concerned about the genocide in Africa, speak out about it.  Tell everyone you know.  Organization information parties.  Petition your congressman.  Do whatever you can as a responsible citizen of the world to stop what's happening in Africa for continuing..  \n\nAnd remember how easily it could've been you who was born to a mother in subsaharan Africa.  and what it would be like for you.
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Long before any of those.  Check out what Mark Twain wrote about the US action in Cuba and the Philippines, way back in 1901.  Or Washington Irving on the treatment of the Native Americans.  It's been going on a long time.  (And no, I'm not saying that we Europeans are any better.)