Paternalism and the Western Hemisphere
Paternalism and the Western Hemisphere The Indigenous people of the western hemisphere have been living in a colonialist, paternalistic environment for over 500 years. During that time we have been accepting, adapting, and accommodating to the European invaders. This approach has served us horribly and has consistently decimated our nations, communities and families. The Europeans do not adapt to their environment, they require that the environment adapt to them. And of course we were considered a part of the environment. We were considered slag, a resource, an impediment to progress. So the quick and certain elimination of our people and culture was the only solution. They never intended to work with us, they only manufactured and network of cooperation and agreement. When in fact the true agenda of every spectrum of their society had a nihilistic core from which they sought to destroy and subjugate the indigenous populations, and those ...