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As @jsaideepak has shown, the "decoloniality" happening in Americas has been focussed only on race and race only. Because their religion was irrecoverably lost. What remains is only phenotype differences. Here is once such encounter with a vocal Native American handle.
Ram Swaroop had written 30 years ago on how Indigenous America was destroyed by Christian zealots and how it has to be rediscovered in a Hindu way.
But there is considerable resistance by Native Americans to rediscover their traditions from a polytheistic lens which only Hindu Dharma can offer today. Since, for them, Christianity has already been accepted as "true". Their uniqueness is purely reduced to race.
I feel it is really not worth engaging with Native American and African decoloniality since at the end of the day they've accepted Christianity as a non-negotiable and the only lens to analyze other "religions", such our Hinduism.
Ram Swaroop had written 30 years ago on how Indigenous America was destroyed by Christian zealots and how it has to be rediscovered in a Hindu way.
But there is considerable resistance by Native Americans to rediscover their traditions from a polytheistic lens which only Hindu Dharma can offer today. Since, for them, Christianity has already been accepted as "true". Their uniqueness is purely reduced to race.
I feel it is really not worth engaging with Native American and African decoloniality since at the end of the day they've accepted Christianity as a non-negotiable and the only lens to analyze other "religions", such our Hinduism.
It\u2019s complex. The ideological framework for them is different: \u201cindigenous\u201d people in India are seen as oppressed by a religion and a state that has deprived them of rights for centuries. Christianity is seen as empowering them with education and individual rights. + https://t.co/JTzdmqTRwR
— siddharth (@siddharthc_09) November 2, 2021