'Amercians have no cultural beliefs that connect them as a people'

‘Amercians have no cultural beliefs that connect them as a people or nation, to other human beings or to the natural world as brothers and sisters in a familial cosmos’

This is one of many generalisations and insults toward Westerners I found in an article by a native Hawaiian woman Haunani-Kay Trask in an article I am doing an essay on for my indigenous writing paper. Just thought I would share how annoyed I was by this article. I can completly appreciate what colonisation has done to the indigenous people of Hawaii - and all other areas of the world, and agree that it was dreadfull and indigenous people have the right to 'write back' to colonisation, but this article was so badly written I think unless I had been so offended by it I wouldnt have been able to write a report on it. IMO, being indigenous and angry about colonisation doesnt give you the right to generalise like this woman has with no evidence to back up your insults some of the other ones being that Westerners objectivy nature and exploit with capatilism.. I really wish I could say to her 'well if your so fucking against Westerners why the hell are you publishing in English?'
Does anyone else have any opinions on this or something similar?

 

Yeah I have an opinion. Keep fucking with the usa and you will get nuked in to oblivion.

 

Happyhippy's right, we know how to make enemies and start crap lol. It may not be your bag but we liiiiiiiike it. lol

 

eek... well I'm almost afraid to reply... not being American and all I may have a weird perspective on it.... but I don't mean any of this offensively...

I've heard similar things written about Canadians... unfortunately we've got a bit of a 'melting pot' thing happening here... There isn't an exact 'culture'... we're all just a mush of other cultures...

I don't think this was meant to be an insult - a generalization, yes... but out of curiosity, what is your cultural beliefs to contradict her quote?

I'm curious to see what the WHOLE article said.... to finger out a single quote takes it out of context.

um, hate to say, but there are a lot of people in the world outside of N. America who speak a bit of English...

ah, that's nice... at least we're not reinforcing the mentality of the original quote... I wonder why so many think so poorly of the American 'nuke 'em all' mentality?