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In reply to the discussion: I've finally figured out normal white people. [View all]Squinch
(51,122 posts)here in the- we'll go with early 17th century - if you were one of the first settlers in New England, you would have found yourself to be exceptionally well treated by the native Americans. Guys like Massasoit and his people bent over backwards to be helpful and accommodating. Even as he watched boat after boat of English show up.
It was only after a few English massacres of native villages that the natives turned against them, and even then it was not a widespread reaction for many years. It only became racial when the English made it racial in King Philip's war. Prior to that it was smaller groups of natives against smaller groups of English who clashed locally as neighbors often do, and other native groups refused to join the natives, and other English groups refused to join the English.
So no. It is incorrect to say that most "indigenous" populations would respond this way when a new population shows up. This is not a "universal" response by any means. This is a response by entitled people who fear the loss of their entitlement.
It doesn't have to do with "new" populations and "indigenous" populations. It has to do with subjugated and subjugator when the subjugator loses his primacy.
And what history DOES bear out is that the subjugator is almost always an atrocity-dependent group who used methods that most normal people find morally repugnant to maintain their position as subjugator. So no one has much sympathy for them when they are forced to stop. As in this case.