Quote: (09-28-2015 03:46 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
To me, the more interesting question is this:
Why were there such big cultural differences between the Europeans who settled North America and the Europeans who settled South America?
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese intermarry and mix with the Indians of Central and South America, while the Indians of North America did not mix (or at least very little) with the northern European types (English, Dutch, German, Scandinavian) that settled North America?
Indians in North America were essentially wiped out.
In Central and South America, they were also brutalized, but there was a large degree of admixture with the colonizers. Spanish and Portuguese took native wives, and also reproduced with slaves.
British didn't really do this, or at least not as much.
North America was a caste system that was very rigid. Why was this?
Was it climate? Geography? Cultural differences between the Mediterranean races and the Northern Europeans?
Good questions QC. Same thing in the southern Philippines under spanish rule, spanish intermarried with locals.
America is a good example with some small exceptions. So, here in appalachian Tennessee there was plenty of intermarrying/cooperation with the natives and you can see Cherokee features in plenty of girls around here (straight black hair, flat feet, no butt) Davey Crockett actually took a lot of political damage because he opposed the Indian Removal Act. Wheras the rest of america and Canada took an extermination policy (for the most part).
Canada's Davey Crockett equivalent was Louis Riel and again, in Manitoba there was a big culture of intermarrying and Metis (mixed) families.
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Psalm 2:1 KJV