1. One obvious question that comes to mind is that once you (white people?) are a minority, then would it still be your land? What does that even mean? 2. You live in Spain, I believe. Do Spaniards consider you an invader?
3. There's an interesting discussion in Quebec where many Francophones there use emotional language about how the land there is theirs. Well, they've only been there 400-500 years, what makes it theirs, especially considering that the indigenous people had been there for 5000 years prior to that. I'm a little wary of "groups" declaring land to be "theirs". I have a title deed to the house I own, so that makes it mine, so long as I pay property taxes. That's about as far as it goes imo.
1. Once the indigenous, white people become a minority in their own land - the place they have lived in as an almost absolute majority for generations upon generations, hardly a difficult concept - they do lose the democratic control of their living space. That means that the "new" people become the numerical rulers of that area. Having the numbers, they then win the political power. Guess who loses.
2. Yes, I do live in Spain. The situation is mixed: on the one hand, we, the incoming people, have brought a lot of capìtal, created jobs largely in construction, and the tourist trade (different animal to expats living here) has given more work in the hospitality trades. That is far from a balanced equation, though, as the incoming numbers have distorted the natural, pre-tourism balance and equilibrium of the land, what its natural resources can support. Water is regularly a problem, and the demand on the sewerage systems is massive. Farms have been abandoned and sold to rich foreigners who turn them into personal pleasure domes; right across the hedge from me, what used to be a beautiful field of ripening wheat, rippling in the breeze like some golden ocean, is now abandoned and turning back into an extension of the pine forest on the hill beside me... very nice idea, but in a few years there will be a view limited to fifty feet, and an immediate fire hazzard.
What do the locals make of us interlopers? In general, they appear to have come to accept us as a source of wealth that trickles across to them via plumbers, joiners, builders, restaurants etc. but, importantly, the new people are making home purchases ever more difficult for the natives. Even those, like myself, who came over forty years or so ago, are being left behind regarding prices, and many of us could never have bought into the market at today's prices. The result is a crisis where the locals often have to live at home too long. So, I would assume that their opionions of us are mixed, to say the least!
And don't forget: we came over as relatively rich, money-spending and wealth-spreading people, not as job-stealing, wage-undercutting or state handout-dependant migrants. Big difference.
3. Five hundred years is a helluva long time! Importantly, you must not forget that the people to whom you refer came over with superior weaponry. As with all of the Americas, from Spanish times, it was about conquest and the establishing of the Catholic religion often, itself, no more than a ruse for the amassing of wealth for the so-called religious kings and queens. Exploitation, theft.
What's happening today in Europe is pretty much the same thing: the attempted replacing of one set of power structures by another. In place of armadas we get migrants bringing with them their faith and birthrates. Unfortunately, unlike the ones that settled in Spain centuries ago, bringing education, art and sciences, the new ones bring the seeds of death and religious intollerance. Their own religion has been usurped and taken over by people so akin to the Christian fundamentalists as to be two sides of the same snake. I am
not guessing: I was at a boarding school run by such people; I know the mindset and its perversions.
If the West got one thing right, it was freedom for religion and freedom from it. As usual, the French have a word for it, and separation of state from religion:
laïcité.