Thank you very much for this thoughtful comment @gatubela. Some very wise and very true words here. I admit I had to google out the total number of victims of the European colonization in the Americas and I was shocked to find out that it´s estimated at some 55 million Indians, which represented 90% of their entire population back then. I didn´t realize this genocide was so enormous... It was in a different era when people thought and acted differently but still, the numbers are just heartbreaking :( Thank you for raising these points again, definitely something to reflect and contemplate on...
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You´re welcome @phortun, that´s true, it´s a very deep and complicated theme and you know, indians and black people unlike some, don´t have the power in Hollywood toshow and make massive the holocaust stories they suffered as others have had the opportunity to do. I don't want to get into controversy but just think about this, why are so many Hollywood movies about the Jewish Holocaust and none or and none or very few about the holocaust of the colonizers against the native peoples of the American continent, that of the Turks against the Armenians, that of the English, French and Portuguese against the Africans, or that of the United States against the whole world? I think that the the answer is obvious, so sad but true.
I can only agree. As sad as it is, the history of mankind has witnessed so many genocides (or genocide attempts) but their coverage in movies, books and culture in general varies greatly. Some of them have got a lot of attention while others have got just a little or none... Unfortunately :(
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