Comments by "Remy Lebeau" (@remyllebeau77) on "Sean Sherman: Why aren't there more Native American restaurants? | TED" video.

One of the few points I can agree with on this video. A tradition passed down so the rich could show off how many workers they had to keep up the yard, and now the average house owner is stuck doing all the work themselves or paying a company just to have wasted space.
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@the_algorithm I don't have a problem acknowledging the crimes of past generations if their guilt isn't pushed on me. What I have a problem with, is focusing only on those and ignoring the crimes of everyone else. Let's not pretend that the N.A. were perfectly peaceful and they didn't have their own wars and massacres. Here is just a few of the problems I have with the video. 1. N.A. were not the first. 2. It is not N.A. land anymore, nor SHOULD we necessarily care about their food just because it was their land. What happened to progress? Conveniently ignored when it suits leftist causes. 3. Their food should be able to stand on it's own, not because of historical relevance. And certainly not forced on anyone. If it needs to be spoon fed to everyone, I highly doubt it will be able to stand on its own. 4. "N.A. food can benefit everyone." Citation needed. 5. "If you discover it, you don't own it" Does that apply to the N.A. too? Are we supposed to ignore that the N.A. did not have the same concept of land ownership? If they didn't own it, it's free real estate.
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@patmyles4776 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If someone finds that they love Arizona style rock gardens, then it is a win anyway you look at it, beautiful and practical.
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@Surferant666 Sometimes I'm sure that is the case, but yet they treat symptoms and not the disease. If the modern way was so great, they could and would provide actual cures, instead of lifelong treatments which insures constant customers.
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@faerie5926 That isn't what I meant. If you look at other events of takeover or conquering, it was quite possible for the food of the conquered to survive or even be adopted by the victors. The act itself doesn't necessarily stop the food culture from continuing unlike what happened with the N.A.
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@misszombiesue No, I never said that. It was probably because of how they were pushed to reservations instead of integrated into society.
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@faerie5926 Quite all right. Cheers.
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Or didn't have warring tribes massacring each other? They'd probably still be in the stone ages.
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Zero mention that many tribes lived for war and constantly understood and lived with the right of conquest that they refuse to acknowledge now, even with the benefit of hindsight. You can not have wisdom without truth, and if your talk can be boiled down to white man bad, indigenous people good, you are way off base.
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@AngelaSealana It was my point, and he talked about more than just food. You can't have wisdom without truth. That goes for the victors in war that get to write history in their favor, and the ones that lose and take up the "constantly oppressed" banner.
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@gullyfoyle3915 Thanks for your point of view, but I'll have to disagree.
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@misszombiesue Because it wasn't preemptive when I saw enough of that attitude in the video to justify the claim as well as copious amounts of that attitude in certain parts of society.
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@ Very little of ancient history does not involve violence and war. Do you realize how privileged you are to live in the first world in relatively peaceful times?
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