In article Byp7c.56556$SR1.102160@attbi_s04, "Marc J. Zeitlin"
writes:

Wdtabor wrote:

OK, I'm about done with the Poor Mistreated Noble Savage crap.....
Our people came here and in 400 years built a nation that feeds the
world and
touched the moon. We earned this place. It is ours. They fell by the
wayside
because their culture stifled progress and inovation......
Cultures are subject to natural selection just like species.

Making no statement regarding the general conversation here, I'd suggest
that you read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond for a reasonable
refutation of your supposition regarding the relative worth of cultures.


I don't really have time just now to read some book that might, or might not,
be relevant to what I said. If you have an argument to advance, please do so.

But I am not trying to compare the relative worth of cultures, I am comparing
results. Had the Amerindian culture rewarded knowledge and ambition as ours
did, considering the vast resources thay had at their disposal, a successful
culture would have been large and strong enough to resist us.

Instead, they were still in the stone age after 11,000 years. It doesn't matter
how noble or valuable they might have been from some subjective viewpoint,
objectively they failed.

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG