How do Americans feel about the way Native Americans were treated?

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...they have higher rates of alcoholism because they were the last people's to get alcohol ergo their bodies have not developed to handle it properly. Think of how many alcoholic people there are in the Middle East....very few because alcohol was first made there and those people took it in and adapted to it's effects.

I'm not going to look back 200 years ago and feel bad about shit I had no part in....does anyone feel bad that Sherman burned Atlanta to the ground and starved out plenty of Southerners I doubt they do, but that's ok because all Southerners are white slave owners and they probably deserved it....unlike those brave and peaceful indians

That small religion that prohibits alcohol might also have some effect on Middle Eastern rates of alcohlism. What's it called?? Izzlarm or somethin?? I hear its quite big over

Those 'brave and peaceful indians' were in their home Lyle, when a load of strange people came into their country & attacked it, killing many of their citizens. You say you're not going to 'feel bad about shit you had no part in'. Fair enough. But, I'm curious would you hold many Muslims to the same standard if they said 'I don't feel anything about 9/11, I had nothing to do with it'. Because I have a suspicion if I hunted down through threads, there would be some of you demanding that they make it very clear how against terrorism they are.

It also makes it impossible to gauge just how many people could be defined as alcoholics as nobody will seek help or admit to their problem.

Also, indigenous rates of alcohol abuse can be largely explained by the socio-cultural problem which continue to devastate their culture. Marginalized and oppressed peoples around the world tend to suffer from high levels of substance abuse, mental and physical health problems, etc.

Lyle, your answer is far, far too simplistic.