Indigenous Americans demand a reckoning with brutal colonial history

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14. Yes, but what is interesting is the influx of peoples from Asia

The Spanish traded silver with the Chinese - but the Chinese would not let the land in China so it was traded in the Philipines. The ships returning to Mexico and South America were crewed by Philipinos and Chinese, many of whom ran away in the New World and settled. Japanese Samurai were hired as security, so there were groups of Samurai wandering around Mexico, hiring out as guards and mercenaries.

There is even a tale of a "princess" from India who became a sort of celebrity in Mexico.

AS for the African slaves, one reason the trade continued was that mosquito borne diseases were introduced to the New World and the European indentured servants could not survive those diseases - in fact, they became endemic in parts of Europe, too - so African slaves were needed since Native Americans had been greatly killed off and white workers could not live and work under the same conditions.