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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Volvo vs Apple
Message-ID: <855@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 17:18:20 EST
Article-I.D.: cadre.855
Posted: Mon Oct 26 17:18:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 04:43:15 EST
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Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <6856@mhuxu.UUCP> smh@mhuxu.UUCP (S. M. Henning) writes:
> why buy from European deserters who came to
>America to destroy the native Americans when you can buy from
>loyal Europeans who stayed and persevered?  This country needs
>an Apple in every teepee.;)

A little skewed and over-generalized perspective on why people
came to America and what they did when they got here.  (At
least some of) my ancestors would have been happy enough to 
remain in their European homes, but were not able to because of 
religious persecution by the "loyal" Europeans.  They did
not personally "destroy" any native Americans, but of course
their culture (at least) was inevitably doomed as soon as a technologic
culture such as Western Europe came into contact with native
non-technological cultures.  This is a natural consequence,
which although it had deplorable effects for the natives,
it is hard to see how it could have turned out differently.
(The diseases the white man brought killed more natives than
their weapons, incidentally.)