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(37,648 posts)even if their ancestors lived on that land several hundred years ago.
Besides, we're ALL indigenous to Africa, if you go back far enough. The people in your post "migrated" thousands of years ago from Africa, just like others did.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Funny how that works, isn't it?
Neue Regel
(221 posts)Just as there are laws that regulate the movement of people across borders.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Which is why American corporations are openly operating south of the border, controlling much of the standard of living and the political structures there and the indigenous people who come North have to hide.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Capital can't do some things that people do. That's because money is different from people.
Capital can't own a home, get a job, buy groceries. People do those things.
If you're talking about corporations, corporations can't "migrate" all over the globe, as they want to, either. There are laws by each country dictating who, and what corporations, are allowed within their borders.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Fat lot of good those laws have done to stop companies from moving out.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Companies and people can move OUT when they want. All they need is to find another country whose laws will let them inside their borders.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Igel
(35,320 posts)Actually, the native peoples down in Tierra del fuego and the Inca and Aymara are just as indigenous to N. America.
in fact, the native peoples of the Americas are indigenous to Siberia, as well. And to SE Asia.
As well as the Middle East.
It just depends where it's politically expedient to draw the line.
Of course, the Maya would have no right whatsoever to migrate to South America, just northward; and the Aztecs were obvious colonialist imperialists and should be forced to relocate and pay reparations. Then again, this is another one of those things that it's currently expedient to forget about. Well, whatever redefining and reimagining of the past, refactualizing in order to support current aspirations. After all, truth is a social construct so there are easily a multiplicity of competing truths.