14 August 2020

They are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone.

1 comment

taiji heartwork said...

Christopher Columbus writing about the first natives he encountered in the Americas.

In the first 100 years after he discovered America over 60 million indigenous people were wiped out, the most severe case of genocide and ethnic cleansing ever recorded. That's over 10% of the then world population.