Re: Amerindian navigators and Eurocentrism in scholarship

[Milo Gardner <gardnerm@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>]

Wow, Hugh, you have no sense of even modern politics. Ladinoization
still dominates Latin America.

Of course, you are going to play 'dumb' and pretend not to know the
400 + years of Ladinoiation, live like a Latin or face the total
loss of political rights!

Do you read the newspapers? How else would you explain Chaipas
and Guatemata's civil striff?

My minor is economic history -- and none of your facts are placed
in any historical context of any significance!

Milo
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Hugh Gibbons wrote:

> In article <5v90tb$b83$1@titan.globalserve.net>, yuku@globalserve.net (Yuri
> Kuchinsky 17784) wrote:
> 
> 
> > Actually the out and out _racism_ of the Spanish colonialists played even
> > a bigger role in this area. It was the Spanish who destroyed this proud
> > chapter of Native history, i.e. the extensive coastal trading networks. 
> 
> Don't confuse imperialism/colonialism with racism.  Spanish colonists 
> destroyed the coastal trading networks for two reasons.  Firstly, so 
> they could subject the coastal peoples to the rule of the Spanish 
> king and secondly because trading networks not dominated by Spain 
> would compete with and take business from the "legitimate" Spanish 
> traders who controlled the area and paid taxes to the king.  Don't 
> imagine that the Spaniards would have hesitated to supplant a local
> trading network if the people running it happened to be white.
> 
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