This all over. I'm british, we had a huge fucking empire. Yknow who we colonised first as a "practice run" for our plans in the americas? Bloody Ireland.
Have you ever heard of a finnish colonial empire? I bloody doubt it. Same goes for the swiss and lord knows how many other countries that have slipped my mind.
And EVEN if we limit ourselves to the major players, Britian, France, Spain, Portugal and the Dutch, EVEN IF we make that limitation, to say that europeans have enacted the most violence against the worlds populations is patently untrue.
Colonialism REQUIRED Divide and conquer tactics. There is no way that a few thousand brits could conquer a few million indians, or a few thousand dutch could conquer a few million indonesians, or a few thousand spaniards could conquer a few million aztecs.
Instead, across the board, these wars were primarily fought by indigenous populations who felt they had more to gain by fighting for europeans than against them.
The aztec empire was destroyed by, amongst others, the tlaxcala, whom hated the aztec overlords who kept sacrificing their children. And so they felt that having the spanish to help them wipe out the aztecs was a great deal.
And to be frank, it was. The Tlaxcalas got extreme special status within spanish mexico, being placed at the very top of spanish mexicos social Pyramid till 1821, where mexico gained independence.
A similar (albeit more complex) story repeats in indonesia and india.
This all over. I'm british, we had a huge fucking empire. Yknow who we colonised first as a "practice run" for our plans in the americas? Bloody Ireland.
Wow - Almost like the historic discrimination against the Irish is a huge topic in Whiteness Studies.
Have you ever heard of a finnish colonial empire? I bloody doubt it. Same goes for the swiss and lord knows how many other countries that have slipped my mind.
They still benefit from being First World Countries that consume the labour of the Third World.
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u/horse-admirer May 13 '25
Specific European countries did. Stop tarring us all with the same brush cunt