1654-85? Really? And you honestly think that timeframe gives a representative sample of European immigrants to North America? Really? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day. Mass immigration didn’t even start until the 19th century for fucks sake, nearly 200 years later. Sometimes Lemmy really sucks ass.
What do you think is more likely: that I think 48% yeomen and husbandmen is a good representation of all of the immigrants to the USA or that you misunderstood my comment?
Right, well, that is a rather small portion of what is an entire book on the subject matter which goes into a lot more depth on the other 360 years as well. But the commenter seems to imply (rather obviously in my opinion) that all I’m basing my statement on is this quote and not the entirety of the book which I linked. There actually is a lot more said about the “later” settlers, that is the european proletariat brought in to replace the non-white workers, but since it’s a lot more detailed I couldn’t remember a succinct quote.
As for the context in which I made my original comment, the tweet talks about how “almost all of us descended from people fleeing persecution or trying to find a better life”, to which the passage I quoted does say:
The mythology of the white masses holds that those early settlers were the poor of England, convicts and workers, who came to North Amerika in search of “freedom” or “a better way of life”. Factually, that’s all nonsense.
This is the mythology the tweet in the post is referencing and hence my comment on it. The rest was to provide context on what the “early” settlers demographic looked like.
I reread your comment and I feel bad for over extrapolating that quote, I thought it was more of an article type analysis then I visited the site and it’s really a whole book on the subject. IT appears quite thorough
Can I ask why so many words like “amerika” or “klass” are spelt with a k?
1654-85? Really? And you honestly think that timeframe gives a representative sample of European immigrants to North America? Really? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day. Mass immigration didn’t even start until the 19th century for fucks sake, nearly 200 years later. Sometimes Lemmy really sucks ass.
What do you think is more likely: that I think 48% yeomen and husbandmen is a good representation of all of the immigrants to the USA or that you misunderstood my comment?
I feel like neither, the commenter is pointing out that 40 years nearly 400 years ago is missing a big chunk of immigration to North America.
Right, well, that is a rather small portion of what is an entire book on the subject matter which goes into a lot more depth on the other 360 years as well. But the commenter seems to imply (rather obviously in my opinion) that all I’m basing my statement on is this quote and not the entirety of the book which I linked. There actually is a lot more said about the “later” settlers, that is the european proletariat brought in to replace the non-white workers, but since it’s a lot more detailed I couldn’t remember a succinct quote.
As for the context in which I made my original comment, the tweet talks about how “almost all of us descended from people fleeing persecution or trying to find a better life”, to which the passage I quoted does say:
This is the mythology the tweet in the post is referencing and hence my comment on it. The rest was to provide context on what the “early” settlers demographic looked like.
I reread your comment and I feel bad for over extrapolating that quote, I thought it was more of an article type analysis then I visited the site and it’s really a whole book on the subject. IT appears quite thorough
Can I ask why so many words like “amerika” or “klass” are spelt with a k?
If people thought it was “just” an article a lot of the responses start to make sense lol
I don’t know why the spelling with “k” is chosen unfortunately.