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

[CFH]

.....oh well, I guess I'll go sulk now since CFH doesn't agree with me

There are different rates of alcoholism in different groups of peoples what explains it? Socio-economic status? Maybe, but just because you are poor and maybe uneducated it doesn't mean you HAVE to drink...I'm sure there are just as many SOBER poor people as there are drunk poor people. And they always say "Alcoholism is GENETIC" so wouldn't it be within reason to suggest such a theory? I think people more affected by drink usually have an ENVIRONMENTAL and GENETIC suceptablity to it

Each race usually has it's own little set of issues that helped them adapt to their original environments E.G. People from near where Malareia runs rampant are more apt to have sickle cell anemia because sickle cell helps in dealing with that disease.....but I guess you have me buddy, I sure didn't prove any points here

I don't agree with most of what you say (on subjects like this one) because the vast majority of it is completely uneducated bullshit. You're trying to argue with me about something I have spent the better part of 4 years studying.

Some people say alcoholism is genetic, some would typify it as a mental illness. Either way, it is not solely a genetic disorder, and it has been demonstrated over and over again that socio-cultural factors (not just poverty) play a prominent role in substance abuse. I don't understand how you can try to argue against that, it's simply ignorant.

The example of sickle-cell anemia and malaria isn't really apt here. It's something that proliferated over a long period of time and the people who have developed the sickle-cell trait were, and are, exposed to malaria in a problematic way much more broadly and with far more devastating physical results than people are to alcohol. Malaria could (prior to the development of the sickle-cell trait) kill anyone, relatively few people because alcoholics.The two issues are almost impossible to compare. Were Natives affected by the fact that many of them had not had exposure to liquor? Absolutely, but to say that is why there are high incidents of alcohol abuse among indigenous people today is ludicrous. You could argue that cultures who have been exposed to alcohol for longer periods of time have developed culturally based ways of protecting themselves against alcohol, but to say it is a purely physical issue is wrong.

And every race (an extremely arbitrary and contentious term) does not have traits it developed evolutionarily. Adaptation and evolution are not "race" specific, they are environmental.