kiterios@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imo, if you go back far enough, it is unlikely. No matter how peaceful or charitable a country may be now, they had to lay claim to their land at some point. And making those claims usually meant displacing or conquering someone else.
And making those claims usually meant displacing or conquering someone
That’s not correct. There were fewer people in former times. The world’s population is growing. The differences in numbers are astonishing. Therefore they had much more “free space” then.
When the numbers were far lower they used more area to support people and they all wanted the better places too.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fun fact. When Captain Vancouver sailed up the strait eventually named Juan de fuca, he spotted an aboriginal group in canoes, painted aggressively and paddling furiously. He passed a village, near what was ripple Rock, occupied by another band, soon thereafter.
On the return trip, that village was occupied by the group he saw in the canoes earlier.
Even before Canada was a country, the people occupying it were displacing others.
Of course, the Clovis people may have something to say about displacement as well.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Ah, the old, “well they were doing it when we got here, we may as well keep doing it” argument.