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Old 05-31-2007, 08:31 AM   #1
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Which native americans are you talking about?
The 10 to 20 million people living in an advanced, complex North American society before the "settlers" arrived to "tame the wilderness" ...
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Old 05-31-2007, 08:54 AM   #2
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Old 05-31-2007, 01:53 PM   #3
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The 10 to 20 million people living in an advanced, complex North American society before the "settlers" arrived to "tame the wilderness" ...
But they weren't the first, so why do they have any more right to claim this land than the european settlers? Your argument is not about who was first, just who was here before the british???
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Old 05-31-2007, 03:35 PM   #4
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But they weren't the first, so why do they have any more right to claim this land than the european settlers? Your argument is not about who was first, just who was here before the british???
The Native Americans weren't here first??? Be it 12K, 19K, or as much as 40+K years ago; via land voyage across the Bering Strait, or skipping along the extreme Northern coastline in small boat voyages, people got here somehow. They were here, and well-established in a complex, advanced culture of 10s of millions (as opposed to a nomadic scattering of primitive savages) when the Europeans began to arrive circa 1500.

It's not "my argument" - it's what happened. I mention the British specifically because they mark the beginning of the "creation myth" of America.
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Old 05-31-2007, 04:29 PM   #5
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The Native Americans weren't here first??? Be it 12K, 19K, or as much as 40+K years ago; via land voyage across the Bering Strait, or skipping along the extreme Northern coastline in small boat voyages, people got here somehow.
So, no matter where they came from or how they got here - they were all Native Americans, right up to and excluding the european settlers?
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Old 05-31-2007, 05:40 PM   #6
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Yes, that's what Native American means.
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Old 05-31-2007, 07:55 AM   #7
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Old 05-31-2007, 08:51 AM   #8
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Personally, I think white supremacy today has massive similarities to the Stanford Prison Experiment.

The Stanford Prison Experiment was where a random group of college students were either given a duty of prison guard or prisoner for a psychology experiment. After a while, these kids started actually acting upon their assigned positions, sometimes very violently. The prison guards were very dominant and abusive while the prisoners were very submissive and rebellious.

When white kids of today learn about history and "great" people, all they see are whites. So they start subconsciously assuming that whites are better than all the other races. When they are given this assumption, they will start to subconsciously acting upon it.
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Old 05-31-2007, 08:57 AM   #9
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Personally, I think white supremacy today has massive similarities to the Stanford Prison Experiment.

The Stanford Prison Experiment was where a random group of college students were either given a duty of prison guard or prisoner for a psychology experiment. After a while, these kids started actually acting upon their assigned positions, sometimes very violently. The prison guards were very dominant and abusive while the prisoners were very submissive and rebellious.

When white kids of today learn about history and "great" people, all they see are whites. So they start subconsciously assuming that whites are better than all the other races. When they are given this assumption, they will start to subconsciously acting upon it.
Amazing that you brought that up. Over the weekend I read "High School Confidential" by Jeremy Iverson. The author posed as a high school student, and referred to the Stanford experiment (Iverson also graduated from Stanford) to point to this very phenomenon.
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:00 AM   #10
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The Stanford Prison Experiment was where a random group of college students were either given a duty of prison guard or prisoner for a psychology experiment. After a while, these kids started actually acting upon their assigned positions, sometimes very violently. The prison guards were very dominant and abusive while the prisoners were very submissive and rebellious.
I saw a very disturbing movie based on this scenario... I cannot remember, at the moment, what it was called.

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When white kids of today learn about history and "great" people, all they see are whites. So they start subconsciously assuming that whites are better than all the other races. When they are given this assumption, they will start to subconsciously acting upon it.
And conversely, how do you think non-white students feel about what they "learn" in "history" class?
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:06 AM   #11
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Amazing that you brought that up. Over the weekend I read "High School Confidential" by Jeremy Iverson. The author posed as a high school student, and referred to the Stanford experiment (Iverson also graduated from Stanford) to point to this very phenomenon.
I will put it on my list, thanks. I am assuming that you liked it?

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I saw a very disturbing movie based on this scenario... I cannot remember, at the moment, what it was called.
If you can think of the name could you please give me it?

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And conversely, how do you think non-white students feel about what they "learn" in "history" class?
Yes, they get the opposite (prisoner) personality. That could be one of the reasons why it is hard for many to breach the "glass ceiling" and why so many are in jail (submissive and rebellious).
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:11 AM   #12
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I saw a very disturbing movie based on this scenario...
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If you can think of the name could you please give me it?
Got it: Das Experiment ... "based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971"
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:29 AM   #13
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I will put it on my list, thanks. I am assuming that you liked it?

I did like it. I found on the net that the "actual" high school he went to was all up in arms, crying "foul." I didn't look at it as a scientific model of a social experiment. Of course any HS wouldn't like the drinking and drug use exposed, though we all know it is what it is (and in most ways is no different than it was for us "old skoolers." He admits that some activity was a conglomeration of people. It's not like Mr X said everything he said Mr X said, rather Mr X may have played a part with contributions from Ms Y and Mr T.

In fact, the reaction I read from the administrators of the school just lent more credence to Mr Iverson's story, imo.

I would be interested in your take, pierce, from a more recently graduated from HS perspective!

Das Experiment is going on my movies I want to see list.
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:28 AM   #14
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Thanks a lot.
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:31 AM   #15
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Yes, I will definitely read it this summer. Thank you a lot, it sounds very interesting.
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