American Indians have been living here for even longer, and yet it's still not their country because they played almost no role in creating it.
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Technically true about the "creation" part, but just because they didn't create it, doesn't mean they should be excluded. Not only natives, but anyone else as well. Whether or not you dolts realize it, your country has benefited handsomely from openness and attraction of foreign talent.
A report last year on immigration from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that while 16 percent of the U.S. workforce is foreign born, immigrants account for nearly a quarter of physicians and dentists and close to 29 percent of scientists, 19.5 percent of engineers and 23.5 percent of computer specialists.
Immigrants contributed $2 trillion to the economy last year, the report concludes.
If you want to kick all of those people, and the wealth they create, out of your country just because they, unlike you, didn't have bigoted, slave-owning ancestors who would sign some documents a few hundred years ago, then fine, go on and continue electing retards like Trump. But don't be surprised if your country goes down the shitter shortly after that.
To be fair, Certifiable Rabbi, you haven't played any part in creating it, and it's certainly not "your" country either.
Except that they did create their own nations which the white man destroyed through war, forced relocation, and genocide. Just because we don't recognize the old Native American nations doesn't mean they didn't exist.
@checkmate
To be fair, the reason for that was that the native americans had already killed of most of the american megafauna at the time. Let's not glorify them either. Still, the OP is of course wrong. From what I remember, native Americans did have nations (even international trade between them) and the reason for their destruction was most likely a nearly apokalyptic disease outbreak which was transferred along their trade lines. The colonists more or less only met the surviving tribes and a northern america which had been already "prepared" for them by the previous, now obliterated nations. So yeah, they actually played a huge role in building your nation CertifiedRabbi, even if you don't want to admit it.
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