erasing a race?

Question

has a race ever been erased in history? For instance, i heard that the Shakers were erased, due to their lack of sexual activity. I also heard the Taino Native Americans were erased out of Haiti. Is that true?

Answer 1

I think you and I probably would define race a little bit differently.

Shakers were or are not a race--they are a group within a race. Ditto the Taino.

If Neanderthal man was a race that certainly might qualify as an erasure, but Neanderthals were also absorbed culturally into the other human groups as well as genetically. So a little of our Neanderthal background still exists in us today.

Similarly the Chamorro people who lived on Guam no longer exist as a totally pure group. But their blood line goes on in the people who live there now, who have intermarried and mingled their blood lines. Again, this was not a race, but a human group within the Asian races.

So I would say the answer to your question is no. The races go o in some form.

Answer 2

Yes it is true about the Tainos, but my understanding was that from my background in Caribbean history that the Tainos were wiped out in Jamaica by the Spanish who used them for hard labour and then cruelly they were hunted for sport by the Spanish as well as well as them not handling diseases that were brought with the Europeans. The Tainos also took the lives of their babies and small children as well so they wouldn't have to live the way they did under the Spanish. Sad but true.

Answer 3

Hmmm. Shakers were not a "race". They were humans who had a belief. Today there may not be any Shakers, but all Shakers were humans.

We as humans have obliterated peoples of certain beliefs. Missionaries have, in the name of God, killed and massacred tribal people. But this is not new. Humans have done this to each other over history.

So we have not erased a race...just erased groups of people who had beliefs that we did not comprehend.

Answer 4

Yes, it is possible. The Taino are a good example. The Carrib indians who occupied the island of Hispaniola before columbus landed is a graphic example. Many natibe American tribes are gone or all but gone...especially those of the north east. There have been many cultures to have been totally annihilated.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Well first you wouldn't call them a "race" conciedering that they all came from Adam and Eve then Noah. But you would call them "people groups". But yes people groups have been killed off. Trojans in the seige of Troy (written in the Iliad) were all killed (do to the diffrent thinking of Holywood). The Phoenicians were all killed (in the Eastern part of their empire) when the Sea People came in and killed all of them. So yeah people groups have been killed off.