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The OP is horrible too.
Over 90% of Tibetan people still speak their ancestral language.
Wanna guess what that number is for indigenous people of Turtle Island?
spoiler
It is 8%. EIGHT FUCKING PERCENT. Fuck all of these cracker libs.Americans and Canadians love to pretend that just because their genocides were more successful and the victims ~~less numerous~~ less numerous now that this somehow invalidates their struggle. One of the longest enduring struggles against colonialism is still alive today in spite of all efforts to exterminate them. Efforts that are ongoing.
North Amerika had about 10 million inhabitants before the settlers arrived and half a million natives left once the expansion of the US and Klanada was complete. Libs downplay this by saying that half of the 9.5 million were killed by plagues instead of being directly murdered, which is ignoring pox blankets, but you have to be creative when you want to deny actual genocides that leave behind material evidence.
Also worth mentioning that being displaced and robbed means that doing things like effectively quarantining become much harder, you are likely to be exposed to many other different diseases (native or otherwise) due to poor shelter, lack of medicine to prevent or treat infections, contact with different animal species and even human populations, etc., and really everything about the situation making the fact that there were any survivors basically accidental to the actual concern the colonizers had of making sure colonized land was "cleared" of native inhabitants.
for context, the 10 million inhabitants number is in dispute. some estimates for N. America alone go up towards 20 million or even 50 million (including Mexico).
it's worth noting that Tenoctitlan at around a quarter of a million inhabitants was likely the 4th largest city on earth at the time, with a population larger than current day Paris or Istanbul and had 4x the population of London. the spanish conquistadors purposely fouled it's extremely innovative water and transportation system, making disease rampant.
While some of this could be misconstrued as a noble savage trope, they really did have many novel forms of agriculture that were far advanced beyond European practices in terms of sustaining populations at scale.
Simply acknowledging a concrete difference in practices isn't a "noble savage" trope. Different civilizations often have different levels of advancement in different areas.
Also the literally several dozen wars of extermination committed by the US
Honestly that's about twice what I thought it was
Also the PLA ended slavery in Tibet