• ComplexDonut@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Except can you really say “genociding native americans” and “slavery” are a part of American culture? Is it “customary” of Americans to kill native americans and slavery can be an American trait?

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      1 year ago

      Yes, it was explicitly part of American culture, and is written into our very foundational documents.

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      1 year ago

      If you include the period before we split from England we spent centuries taking land that didn’t belong to us and building our economy at least partly on slavery. If you look at the South in that time frame slavery permeated their culture. It is as fair to say that slavery was if anything much more deeply embedded in Southern culture than whaling in Iceland.