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11-14-2012, 11:59 AM | #1 |
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Yeah. Folks took us there when we were kids, couldn't believe it was real.
Those people lived up so high. How they hell could they have made that by hand? So cool.
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11-14-2012, 12:05 PM | #2 |
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My dad took me up there as a teen. It's an incredible experience. Especially if you've been spoon fed "history" like I was as a child. Here is this city created in a cliff. As complex as a European castle. Built by "savages."
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11-14-2012, 01:29 PM | #3 |
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Savages? I don't think anyone has said or thought that since the days of the Wild Wild West have they?
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11-14-2012, 01:48 PM | #4 |
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When I was a child the common thread was that these people were a small step above cavemen, and benefited greatly from our civilizing influence.
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11-14-2012, 01:59 PM | #5 |
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That's horrible.
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11-14-2012, 02:20 PM | #6 |
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Well, it could be regional. I was born in Virginia. We moved to Texas the Summer before I started elementary school, I did not go to kindergarten or day care. We moved back to Virginia the Summer before I started Jr. High School. I moved to Colorado during High School. I think that gave me an atypical education and made me more aware of prejudice that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
Virginia: The Pilgrims created our country with the help of the Founding Fathers. Along the way we showed the Indians how to bathe and act like civilized men. Afterwards, the state of Virginia defeated the British. Texas: Texas was already here. It's always been here. By the time the Easterners made it out this far we had already killed off all of our Indians and were busy eating cows and killing Spaniards/Mexicans. Colorado: Well, yeah, what we did to the Indians was pretty ****ed up. But it's not like we're going to stop here and give all of their shit back. We kept some of their stuff around. You can go see it. |
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11-14-2012, 02:27 PM | #7 |
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The funny thing is that the English actually didn't believe in bathing then and the Natives thought they were disgusting.
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