... came with colonization. He must also recognize that history could have had a more successful outcome if the indigenous population were included in the new world. North American society developed with great energy and speed, as Hitchens argues, but the aboriginal people neither participated in nor benefited from this economic and technological progress. My argument is not so much that the Europeans should have never settled in America but more that they should have incorporated the roles of the aboriginals in the new society filled with new opportunities and innovations. They should not have attempted to wipe out an entire race and culture and society for no apparent reason. Although the main reason behind this was racism and ethnocentrism. The Europeans saw aboriginals as savages. In their view the "savages" were more like animals then humans, and they were treated like animals. They were constantly marginalized and had no ...

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