Natives and colonialism

[rickycubano]

What could the natives have done to avoid colonialism?

[jake-the-peg]

Which natives precisely?

If you look at countries that did for the most part avoid colonialism, China and Japan spring to mind. There were laws early on restricting what Europeans could do, who they could trade with etc.

Compare that with countries like India where the East India company had a pretty free hand.

A bit of a case of give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

[ruby27]

Usually I think committing suicide was probably the only way out

[jno]

have strong armies and up-to-date military technology. Ultimately the successful colonists were those who could back their action by force of arms. The Japanese mostly kept foreigners out. More primitive peoples, like the various native North and South Americans, could not. Some poet wrote, before one of the 19th-century British wars:

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

[Dassie]

In a few years time that's what they'll be saying about the UK and its out of control immigration!

[fletcher.5]

When you are a civilised society & you are invaded by murdering savages I`m afraid there was nothing the poor old natives could have done.

[Lil O'lady]

US history homework on a British website? Ricky must be desperate!

[BelfastBloke]

The Natives could not have done anything about colonialism as they knew nothing about the concept.
Colonialism is a Western term. Every race or nationality has been colonised or the colonist its part of the natural process. Those who disagree with Colonialism have to ask if the Net gain to natives was better than the net loss?
It was