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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I feel like if I choose America I would be mocking those who really do have a cultural identity outside of the US. I asked because you have to submit your country prior to the event. But surely I’m not the only one with this problem? What about American Indians or African Americans who can’t pinpoint a country? I noticed there weren’t any AAs represented at the last multicultural night and I figure they don’t feel welcome either.

Why can’t it be “ancestry night” or similar so that it’s not tied to a country? I had some very interesting ancestors! [/quote]

You are way overthinking this and seemingly letting yourself be totally controlled by a young ES school age child. I'm from Texas too. It does have a cultural experience, but many states do. It is not a country for purposes of multicultural night at a DMV ES. My white ancestors immigrated to TX because they wanted to take away territory from Mexicans and native americans (mine weren't rich enough to own slaves, but, I assume they felt like other people should be allowed to). Being a "pioneer" isn't any better, then you are giving a massive FU to native americans. Why open yourself to that kind of criticism? Your family immigrated here from Europe at some point. Pick one of those countries if your kid insists on dressing up. I feel like white people in the northeast tend to identify with their European ancestry more (maybe because they tend to be more recent immigrants), I don't know. This is one night. Lots of people won't be dressed up. I told my kids we weren't dressing up, and we brought something easy for food (think brownies or chocolate chip cookies from Costco). I didn't care at all if it matched our "country".[/quote]

I grew up in Massachusetts. I can assure you that many of the people who I grew up with were not first or even second generation Irish, British, or Italian but there was very strong identification with being Irish, Italian, or a descendent of the Mayflower. It is a part of most peoples history and they hold it dear. Daughters of the Revolution is a thing. Trips to the homeland is a thing. The North End in Boston, very much a yummy, fattening thing. [b]People gloss over the decimation of the Native Peoples in the region[/b] in favor of pride in being funders of the US and backbone workers of the US and the like. [/quote]

The decimation was almost entirely through unintentional spread of disease.

We are not blaming China for covid, whether it came from a bat or a lab.  Why are you blaming the colonists for the unintentional spread of disease?[/quote]

It was far more then unintentional spread of disease. Settlers tot he US brought weapons that the Native People did not have and had no issues using those weapons to control the territory that the settlers wanted to control. Colonial policiies and latter States laws and Federal Law allowed for the mistreatment of Native Peoples and were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Native Peoples. So while you could forgive the initial settlers spread of disease, the use of force against the Native Population was not an accident. And yes, i[b]t is something that we largely gloss over in US History and State history classes. [/b]
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Nah, it used to be well understood.  We won and they lost.  Now, though, when everyone is a winner, this idea has become incomprehensible and reprehensible.  So now children and adults do not understand it.  [/quote]

Definitely not glossed over, but all countries have been based on conquest.  And "Native" people fought each other for territory.  And yes, the previous PP was accurate that most of the "genocide" was due to disease.  See recent studies on DNA bottlenecks in the Americas and when they occurred.[/quote]

Also “native” Americans did not just magically appear here. They too conquered those who were here before them. [/quote]

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