America is a nation of immigrants

[Mirimir]

On 01/03/2020 09:13 AM, Razer wrote:
> You're walking on Native land shit-for-brains.

That's true enough. In the US, most of them died, long ago. But in
Mexico and some parts of Central and South America, they're still
around. I've visited many places in the mountains of Mexico where many
speak little Spanish. Including Huautla de Jiménez ;)

However, it's also true that multiple groups arrived from Asia in
multiple waves, over perhaps 40 kyr or more. And there are some examples
where later arrivals killed or displaced earlier ones.

Which is pretty much what's happened everywhere, for millions of years.

Still, the Native Americans are very unusual. In that there were more or
less stable cultures throughout the Americas for maybe 10-20 kyr. Until
the fucking Europeans arrived, anyway. _1491_ and _1492_ are sobering.