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Colonialism and Imperialism isn't about building cross-national melting pot entities, it's about strategic control of resources and geo-political regions. You
by cromwellian 10y ago
Colonialism and Imperialism isn't about building cross-national melting pot entities, it's about strategic control of resources and geo-political regions.
You think previous empires were built because they were more concerned with equality and anti-tribalism?
- coldtea 10y ago>Colonialism and Imperialism isn't about building cross-national melting pot entities, it's about strategic control of resources and geo-political regions. "Melting-pot entities" are concerned with the same things ("strategic control of resources and geo-political regions") too. Cross-national melting is mostly about whether you allow the peoples you control to keep their identities or you want to abolish them too, for less market friction and/or smoother political control. USSR comes to mind on the latter. UK/US/EU on the former.