Honestly, the effects of the genocide my people survived didn’t really come down to me. My family lost our language, due to assimilating in America, but the language lives on strong in the “motherland.” Still, the knowledge of that past in my own family gives me a certain affinity to indigenous people (also, my American family played a central role in the genocide of the people of PI, which I did not know until recently), so the issue of indigeneity and genocide in Japan is a deeply personal one to me, as I don’t think I could raise a child here (which is…gonna happen soon) without my child understanding the genocide in my family’s history, the genocide in America’s history, and the genocide that built his homeland of Japan.

It’s really exciting when you find them, too, because, again, they go entirely unmentioned by Japanese people. Foreigners in Japan rarely discuss them because most Euro-Americans have no knowledge of or interest in Pacific cultures. Trust me, though, it’s all there. In my own particular part of Japan, we have a certain stick dance that is almost exactly the same as that done on the island of Yap. Being in the south of Japan, it seems likely to me that some of the indigenous people here (perhaps before assimilation by the Yamato) were perhaps connected to Micronesia.

In Japan, the Ainu are barely acknowledge as existing, let alone being a distinct, separate culture that the Japanese tried to wipe out.

So, nice attempt, trying to act like we don’t get to call Japan out for their callous racism here, but, uh, as an American, I feel very comfortable doing so. My country may not have fully dealt with its racist, genocidal past, but at least we don’t brush it under the rug.

Try again.

Human toll[edit]

The transatlantic slave trade resulted in a vast and as yet still unknown loss of life for African captives both in and outside of America. Approximately 1.2 – 2.4 million Africans died during their transport to the New World[66] More died soon upon their arrival. The amount of life lost in the actual procurement of slaves remains a mystery but may equal or exceed the amount actually enslaved.[67]

The savage nature of the trade led to the destruction of individuals and cultures. The following figures do not include deaths of enslaved Africans as a result of their actual labor, slave revolts or diseases they caught while living among New World populations.

A database compiled in the late 1990s put the figure for the transatlantic slave trade at more than 11 million people. For a long time an accepted figure was 15 million, although this has in recent years been revised down. Estimates by Patrick Manning are that about 12 million slaves entered the Atlantic trade between the 15th and 19th century, but about 1.5 million died on board ship. That is about 10.5 million slaves arrived in the Americas. Besides the slaves who died on the Middle Passage itself, even more Africans probably died in the slave raids in Africa. Manning estimates that 4 million died inside Africa after capture, and many more died young. Manning’s estimate covers the 12 million who were originally destined for the Atlantic, as well as the 6 million destined for Asian slave markets and the 8 million destined for African markets.[68]

And another about narive americans, just a small list of what the so called “Land of the brave home of the free” did to the indians. From wiki again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Massacres_of_Native_Americans

Achulet Massacre

Acoma Massacre

Acteal massacre

Antelope Hills Expedition

Apalachee massacre

Awa’uq Massacre

Battle of Ash Hollow

Battle of Bad Axe

Battle of Claremore Mound

Battle of Norridgewock

Battle of Bandera Pass

Battle of Pease River

Bear River Massacre

Bear River Massacre Site

Battle of Blanco Canyon

Bloody Island Massacre

Bridge Gulch MassacreB cont.

Brodhead’s Coshocton expedition

Camp Grant massacre

Council House Fight

Crow Creek massacre

Cutthroat Gap Massacre

Fairfield Swamp Fight

Fall Creek Massacre

Fort Neoheroka

Gnadenhutten massacre

Indian massacre of 1622

Kabyai Creek Massacre

Kalinago Genocide of 1626

Keyesville Massacre

Kieft’s War

Battle of Little Robe Creek

Marias Massacre

Massacre at Ywahoo FallsM cont.

Battle of Mazocoba

Mendocino War

Mystic massacre

Battle of the North Fork of the Red River

Pauma Massacre

Pavonia Massacre

Pequot War

Peralta massacre

Sand Creek massacre

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

St. Francis Raid

Temecula Massacre

Tuscarora War

1860 Wiyot Massacre

Wounded Knee Massacre

Yontoket Massacre