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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: blankmind who wrote (17322)1/27/2002 1:38:52 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
My own opinion is that the only way you have a right to property is if you buy it from the rightful owner, who sells it to you willingly.

There is no way to know what the history of North America would have been if smallpox and other European diseases had not wiped out most of the Native Americans. We tend to forget that much of North America was deserted, or lightly populated. We also tend to not know how cooperative were most interactions between Native Americans and Euroamericans. It wasn't exactly like you see in western movies.

I am not sure why the Mexicans still obsess over Texas, Arizona and Southern California - but I am aware that they do. However, Mexico doesn't have to keep Americans from coming over their borders in search of a better life, we do. Even if Texas, Arizona and Southern California become so populated with Hispanics that they could feasibly try to secede from the union and become part of Mexico again, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. It's not the land that makes the prosperity, it's the culture.

BTW, the reason that Americans were able to take it from Mexico is because there were almost no Mexicans living in those areas because it was so far from the good parts of Mexico, and there is that desert in between.
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