White South Africans have been there for 15 generations and yet somehow they still don't count as native. White people have been in the Americas for 500 years and yet somehow we aren't allowed to call this our native land. It doesn't matter if your great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather built a cabin on this land with his own hands, it still isn't your land. It's totally incoherent but most white people accept this framing.
"Native" Americans are not native to the Western Hemisphere at all.
– They came from Mongolia in waves.
– The more recent waves took land from the previous waves.
– The Navajos stole land from the Hopis,
– the Hopis stole land from the bands of Anasazi remnants, etc.
Meanwhile calling yourself a native Brit or a native Swede is considered racist and intolerant to the immigrants that literally just arrived
It’s all a giant Gaslight.
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They are native to the Caucasus Mountains.
>White people have been in the Americas for 500 years
Sure, so where would you draw the line?
If the Kahzar’s can claim ~~Israel~~ Palestine as their “*native land*”, I’ll call the United States my native land.
As least my ancestors have been here, longer than the Kahzars have been in ~~Israel~~ Palestine.
**EDIT:** Watch out for flying saucers, as this is likely to blow some beanies sky high…
Because they aren’t indigenous to the land. You’re conflating the words native and indigenous. Having been settled in a location for 500 years, though the super-majority of European descended white Americans are not, is not long enough to be indigenous to the land. There’s not wrong with not being indigenous to a land. No one is being gaslit
So what do you want to use that argument for? Could it be so you can justify being a xenophobe because otherwise it’s hypocrisy?
If you know the names of the people in your family that committed genocide on the last group of natives, then it’s too soon to call yourself a native. Try again in a few generations. You, however, are not a native.
The grandparents of our grandparents are the people that snuffed out the last resistance of the native people in the US. That is too soon. You aren’t a native.
Somebody has to say it!