What would american life have been like without 'white americans'?

Question

follow-up to another question that was asked earlier. How would life in america today be different without modern civilization as we know it today, most of which had its' roots in europe?

Answer 1

Just an aside as I knew the lame "Native America" gambit would be played. In 1519 Spain landed conquerors, not colonists south of Vera Cruz and they fulfilled their leaders orders and "pacified" the land. In just 200 years they marched north and west reaching as far as today's San Francisco. In their wake...The Genocide of over 15 distinct groups of native Americans. They were well on their way in California, New Mexico, and Arizona when they clashed with N.European settlers moving west.
Those native Americans got a much better deal from colonists than they would have from the conquerors.

Answer 2

See : katsulover's Answer (Above)

Early Americans Were A Strong And Powerful Influence
Determined To Build
The GREATEST NATION The World Ever Witnessed

And They Did

Alot Of Strategies Were Implemented
Some Good
Some Not So Good

Considering That Some Nations And Civilizations
Have Been In Existence THOUSANDS Of Years
I'd Say That The Past 250 Years
Have Been The MOST Influential On The Human Race

WHY ??

white americans

Industry
Technology
Free Enterprise

If NOT For The Declaration Of Independence
Drafted By Great Free Thinkers Like Jefferson
We'd ALL Still Be Living Oppressed, Uneducated And In The Dark

Answer 3

Are you asking if no white at all had come to the americas? I guess there would be no hispanics or latinos in the americas either because the Spaniards wouldn't have come to the americas.
Who would be here? indigenous tribes? Blacks wouldn't be here because there would have been no plantations. Asians wouldn't be here because there wouldn't have been a railroad to build. On and on and on....
Do you think the so-called "indian" would have become industrialized and caught up with Europe by now?
Who knows? Would the indians have been able to fight off Hitler or the Communists? Would they have survived the Cold War?

Answer 4

Well I think the Indians would be a whole lot happier. They would still have their original lands and living peacefully without all the drama and hatred toward their culture.

You talk about modern civilization and everything white man has done? Well white men have done a lot for this country but it all was not in the best interest of "modern civilization"

Answer 5

When the boats sailed to America (in the beginning) all the hyper...perhaps adult ADD...certainly the self-starters jumped on board and headed for the new land.

The first settlers were truly those with a "heart for adventure". They were coming to a strange, wild land and would have to carve their lives from scratch. They struggled, established sound laws, created communities, and worked hard. These were the cream of the crop from the European culture.

So...those who settled here were ambitious, hard working, not afraid to take chances.

They did not come for the welfare programs, nor to have their anchor babies, nor to use hospital emergency rooms for what would normally be taken to a MD....they came and made America what it is.

It is our sacred duty to preserve and protect our liberties and our way of life. We have been given a gift by our forefathers. Much of our ancestral blood has been shed to keep our freedoms as well as rescue countries who call upon us for help. Too quickly those countries (WWI and WWII) have forgotten that, but if for us...they would have been conquered and destroyed.

We must be diligent in keeping Mexico, the gangs below the border, and all other potential terrorist out of our land.

Answer 6

I am sure they would have progressed as people often do. Rox brings up a good point-the world as it progressed would have included the whole of America. So they would have their own representatives. Each with it's own laws and boundaries-as it has been for centuries.


Well, some are wrong about slavery-as the tribes themselves had slaves. And Africa did too among the different tribes and often both sold or traded their slaves, slavery has been going on almost since the beginning of time. No race or nationality-is free of this crime.

Answer 7

Lets see there would be no cars,no electric ,no telephone,no computer ,no telegraph,no steam engines,no modern conveniences of any kind.
People would still be living in the dark ages,no cures for the major diseases.It would be a tired desolate land devoid of inventions and intelligence.You said all white people need to not be on this earth right.No TV,radio, no theory of gravity,no science as we know it .I could go on all night but Id get tired of typing before I ran out of things the "white"man has contributed to the world.

Answer 8

you can say one thing for white people we do have vision,and if it wasn't for that we wouldn't have America,I don't know what we would have ,but i bet it wouldn't be anything close to America,America has influence a lot of countries growth,so I don't think we'd be advanced or we'd probably be in Europe somewhere,in priority and ruin,who knows

Answer 9

It would not be the US, the Tribes had their own lands/territories before "whites" came. I imagine it would have stayed that way. Each tribe having it's figureheads for the UN and other worldly issues. Modernization would have eventually gotten here electric/running water ..cars etc. Imagine the trading power the tribes would have had......

Answer 10

i believe that the indians would have developed their own technologies just like the anglo saxons did. they had already developed their own methods of food preservation, fabric making, planting, writing, and building. at the time when the europeans came to america, the indians and the europeans were technologically equal. the europeans just thought that they were the more "civilized" ones. truth be told, they didn't have indoor plumbing either.