Christianizing the Indians.. Good or Bad?

 

 

Why don't you check your story with the elders of many of the Alaskan tribes; I think you'd be in for a surprise. Once again, you and your ideological ally fail to understand that there were a variety of ways in which Christianity spread. And for the record, I will "argue back" so long as you continue being wrong.  Stop overgeneralizing, and I will stop disputing your unsourced (though in some cases not undocumented) "known facts."

 

-Akolouthos

 

Bingo. You know, I seem to recall saying something like that earlier.

 

-Akolouthos

 

You would be surprise at how light some mestizos are. Actually, my country is mainly castizo (1/4 Amerindian). We have had many germanics and northern Italians comming as well.

 

Well, I teach a class in an university where a Dutch professor came as visitor. You would not believe me but that professor is darker than most Chileans . And he still looks pure European. Many Spaniards are darker than most Latinos, particularly Andalucians.

 

So, the theory of the skin color doesn't have support.

 

Look at the facial features. got it? 

 

*sigh*

 

Read my last severeal posts, and, for good measure, pinguin's second to last post; then you will understand--I hope--why your failure to conceive of this dialogue in reasonable terms continues to baffle me. By the way, you will note that your article is a piece of journalism, rather than a research paper. I don't believe this renders it useless for our purposes; I simply feel the need to help you draw distinctions, since you obviously have such a problem doing so on your own.

 

The article you cited deals with the contact between western Europeans, and specifically, given the context, the British. I am referring to the Russians, primarily, and the Spanish. Further, you will note a distinction between the governments of these colonial powers, the companies that were charged with exploiting the land and people, and the missionaries. You cannot treat this problem in monolithic terms; you must attempt to refine yourself as a historian before you can ever truly hope to understand it.

 

-Akolouthos

 

No more than what happens anywhere. I lived in Canada in an environment where everybody was nordic and most people have light eyes (germanics, ukranians, etc.). Well, the common people in the street didn't look as attractive at all like people shown on TV. Women were fat, rough facial features, all kind of imperfections.

 

On TV, though, people was perfect.

 

That's the same everywhere.

 

By the way, a little bit of make up and some tinctures make wonders... I also see Mexican novelas once in a while and I don't find the racial barriers, South African style, that you describe.

 

 

 

 

On the other hand, human sacrifice---especially on the scale the Aztecs liked to brag about---couldn't have been allowed to go on.  Maybe I'm just looking at this as an outsider to all religions, being an atheist, but I would be more concerned with providing Natives with economic stability and social equality before I was concerned by what name they call God.