America; Native European Land?

Many Europeans in the USA argue that the first people to colonize the Americas were in fact Europeans. Archaeological evidence supports this too; men of European race were there already when the Asians arrived from across the Bering Strait many thousands of years later.

I don’t know if this is true. I don’t know if the archaeological evidence holds water or if it is fabricated by European extremists in the USA, but I am open to this idea, that America is in fact Native European land. If anybody can provide us with evidence in this context I welcome you to do so in the comment field below.

With that said though, I wish to say that the Europeans living there today are not descendants of the first European settlers or the younger Asian immigrants, but the Native Americans – as we call them today – are. It is obvious that the Asians mixed with these first European settlers and the result of this is a race that we know as Native Americans. So no matter how you twist this: the European forebears of the Native Americans were there first, and just like Englishmen today are descendants of the native British tribes as well as Anglo-Saxon immigrants, they are indeed native of their land. Not all their forebears were natives, but they are still the natives.

Not all the forebears of today’s Europeans were natives either. On average about 0,3% of our DNA is African, so obviously we had some African forebears too, but we are still the natives of Europe.

The Europeans who came to the Americas after Columbus re-discovered this continent are immigrants. They too are perhaps descendants of the Europeans who first colonized the Americas – we can assume that those who left were in family with those who stayed behind here in Europe – but they are no more natives in the Americans than Africans in Europe, even though Europeans too have some African forebears.

Those of European race living in the Americas are descendants of those who came uninvited to the land of the Native Americans, and they took it by forces. When the Natives resisted them, or “ambushed the poor pioners who traveled to the Wild West” they only defended their homes. If tribes of Africans came to Europe today, setting up colonies along our coast at first and then started to enslave Europeans, rape our women and force people out of their homes then the Europeans too would be in their right to take up arms and defend their homeland! Of course!

There is one thing that makes the examples very different from each other though: America was settled first by those who are immigrants today, while Europe and Britain is still (mostly) inhabited by those who settled here first.

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