Toni
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The difference seems to be that as peoples migrated to the Americas, there were no other people here to displace.That was rather my point.This is true only in that Native Americans immigrated to the Americas exactly the same way that Europeans immigrated from Africa.
Bomb was contrasting immigrant and native. I was contrasting immigrant and indigenous.
In the most technical and unimportant way, the Cherokee are immigrants. So is everyone who isn't an indigenous central African.
Perhaps we could use "indigenous" and "invader"?
Tom
ETA ~It was only after the Twitter thing that I realized that Elon Musk isn't a native American. He's an african American. He's just so rich, powerful, and white plus I didn't care about his history at all.
This is VASTLY different than what Europeans did in the Americas abd vastly different than how viemrtually all the people from the African continent came to be here. Europeans stole land, committed genocude as a policy abd brought over people who were enslaved. They might not have done but India s proved themselves not particularly amenable to being enslaved, being in their own land. So the Europeans did a pretty thorough job of simply wiping the Indians out. The enslaved Africans were already in rough physical shape from the voyage over, disoriented, unable to effectively communicate. Oh, and in chains.