ya know indigenous people around the world have been humiliated, oppressed, conquered and left for dead for thousands of years. The disrespect for indigenous cultures expressed on this thread sickens me. And even worse, I don't think anyone here sees it.

The Mayans are real people with a real and distinct culture. Who are you people to make fun of their beliefs? Do you even notice you are doing it? Why can't people respect indigenous cultures enough not to mock them? You may have colonized the world but must you rub it into the faces of indigenous cultures? ARe you so much better than everyone else that you can make fun of another?

Why isn't anyone interested in learning from the message? Learn from the wisdom of the Elders; the wisdom of ancient yet thriving cultures? Why isn't anyone interested in learning about other cultural beliefs? Are you bigot or just school yard bullies? Are you afraid someone might know a better way of viewing life on earth and it just might not coincide with the dominant euro-centric capitalist view?

I may sound hurt and argumentative and I may be insulting in my frustration with systemic bigotry and euro-centric world views but I do want to learn. I do want to understand why it remains socially acceptable to attack, mock or disrespect another's cultural beliefs and practices.

The places we call home are soaked in the blood of Native American people like other indigenous groups whose cultures and traditional ways of life were viewed by invaders as wrong or at very least primative and of no value. We make excuses for our ancestors slaughter of indigenous populations but we have made no gains. I wonder what excuses our grandchildren will make for us.