Does Imperialists destroy tribal people because they are self sustaining ?

[jj. b]

Imperial capitalists must killed off tribal people for the fact tribal people would not be dependent on a social market place as they can sustain themself. Not to mention they would not believe in property tax and such.

Sure there is more to the picture, but Ill omit the essay.

What is your thinking?

[J.W.]

The main reason for the carnage is that by definition the Imperialist has an exploitative agenda. The tribe is in the way of profit. Whatever assets they have become targeted by the offender. It's that simple. Ask Native Americans. or Africans.

[Independent]

True imperialists are looking to exploit other people and choose relatively unsophisticated people because they are easier to exploit. A true imperialist would not want to destroy a tribe if he could exploit them indefinitely instead. Examples of this would include the European imperialism of the past couple of centuries.

On the other hand, if you're talking about the idea that capitalism (especially as practiced by Americans) changes tribal cultures and makes them more like America, that's not imperialism. It's a matter of injecting free choice and free markets where previously there were none. Given these new choices, often people choose American style capitalism. You may regret the loss of a quaint or quirky tribal culture, but quite often people want to live like Americans when given the choice.

American companies want new customers for their products (and new sources of cheap labor) but the tribal people want the benefits that capitalism brings. They want McDonald's, iPods, television programs, cars, etc. for the same reasons that we do.

[mcd]

Of course not. Do you really think the world's economic elites care about the beliefs of small tribal societies? Now, if those tribal people sit on valuable resources, that's different. (see Amazon rainforest, for example).

[Fares]

imperialism is a monopoly game.

their being tribal is irrelevant, except that they have less resources to resist their gimme more gimme more mentality.