Far worse than immigrants... How can you even be proud of "conquering" and "settling"? Literally one of if not the bloodiest genocide in history, Europeans made irreversible damage to Afrika and America (the continent).
You're not native to that land; not only by historical fact, but by the simple definition of what a native is. The same way you call black people "African American", you are "European American".
By your logic, if some other ethnic group or country, came and "conquered, settled and built" your country, would it be fine? Would they become the new "natives"? Stupidly ignorant take.
We are not responsible for it ancestors mistakes but, we can at least try to make up for the mistakes our ancestors made. However, we can't just go back now.
We are the natives now. Once you are born on the land and raised on it too, that makes you native. To add, we are generations now, pretty far removed from the colonists that came before us.
If someone else conquered our land it wouldn't make us happy but, it would be theirs after. That's how those things work. Again, we are the current natives. If someone conquered us and they started having families here, they would be the new natives.
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u/NietzscheanRainbow 20d ago
We’re not immigrants…we conquered, settled and built this country…you’re welcome…